Sept. 7-8
Spent lunch today with Joseph Smarr of Plaxo.
I’ve been impressed with the ‘turn-around’ at Plaxo - coming from where they originally positioned themselves to where they are right now. They’ve expanded pretty nicely onto the web, from being just an address book backup utility - back in 2003.
They released a ‘identity consolidator’ this week [...]

Surprise, surprise - when one’s fortunes are involved - all of a sudden good community practices and netiquette go out the door.
So it seems that certain Facebooks apps have not been good citizens or even anything remotely resembling nice friends - and the folks a Facebook have had to change things - because of this.
So [...]

While trolling the ‘social network portability’ mail list - I found some interesting ideas:
- Julian Bond thinks Plaxo’s approach rocks
- Anthony Romano calls Brad’s idea SNAP (Social Networks Aggregation Protocol) and even goes so far to name the format OFF (open friend format)
- Tabber, NoseRub and the SocioPath wiki
- hashing the value of FOAF: [...]

My earlier post on Brad’s thoughts summarized the politics, technology and essence of Brad’s vision.
He hopes that a non-profit is created that would aggregate social graphs and make them available to all. Right on!
Now lets put Brad’s idea in context to other open standards ideas.
Brad isn’t the only person who realizes that aggregating [...]

It’s been 12 days since Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon published a white paper “Thoughts on the Social Graph”. In it they talk about a notion of a non-profit that would keep a ‘master graph’ of all relationships between on-line friends which any vendor or developer could use in their social web application [...]

Paolo Valdemarin and Matt Mower moan over the state of tagging.
Maybe now that Technorai has been freed from the tyranny of it’s former masters - a new owner will come in and solve this issue.  Ego got in the way at Technorati.  Its too bad how they handled tagging.
But tagging is much BIGGER than Tantek [...]

Dare Obasanjo is on a roll. Not only does he have a few key posts on Windows Live Contacts and OpenID and how this all fits into our meshed web of distributed social networks, but he’s also perfectly analyzed and critiqued Robert Scoble’s post on social graph search and Google. Right on to Dare! [...]

My old buddy Stewart Alsop has a fund. Not sure how much money they have, but they apparently like black leather jackets. His partner - Gilman Louie was a VC for the NSA.  Now THAT’s a credential to be proud of!
Ning does white labeling - kind of.  The New Playboy social network is really Ning.
Don’t [...]

Since it’s public knowledge that today is Steve Case’s birthday, I don’t feel too badly ‘outting’ him on this juicy bit of personal info. Steve has chosen to let his Facebook friends know this fact and since he’s been bopping around Facebook lately - I bet a lot of people know that it’s Steve’s [...]

Brad Fitzpatrick - the creator of OpenID - who has recently left SixApart has posted a key document and is hard at work on some new stuff. David Recordan is helping - and he’s going to work at SixApart.
There’s a Google Group.
Lots to think about and comment on. I like his attitude.
But for now [...]