Brad’s thoughts on the social graph
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.
Lots to think about and comment on. I like his attitude.
But for now - it’s football and relaxation.
UPDATE: fixed misspelling - but still haven’t had time to dive deep into Brad’s ideas. Stay tuned.
August 19th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Had a chance to sit in on their presentation of this at BarCamp yesterday and it’s very interesting what they’re trying to do. For now, it’s not so much of an end-user tool to interact with, but more the ability to help new social networks provide their new members a useful service for finding those friends that are already registered on the new social network. There are also some other ancillary to the social networks that make this interesting. From the work they will have done here, one can imagine interesting apps that developers will be able to create leveraging the new repository that will result (as a non-profit) fm this exercise. There was also someone fm Plaxo presenting w/them who’s name escapes me.
August 19th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I find it astonishing that the social networks have been so oblivious to the fact that people want to connect to people. They know who I am, how hard would it be to suggest back to me the people I know. Let’s say that I add you as a contact. Why not suggest all the feeds I have on you since I have likely asked you already. Facebook goes part of the way when they check to see if any of my contacts are already facebook members, but it is done strictly off of e-mail addresses. Instead when I add your feed to my feed reader, the service should ask if I want to add a photo stream also.
This would be so much easier if there was one, consistent, way to exchange identity information along the same lines as OpenID.
I hope that is where they are going with this.
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:04 pm
When we can expect your posting/review/critique about Fitzpatrick’s “Thoughts on the Social Graph”?
August 27th, 2007 at 12:34 am
Facebook goes part of the way when they check to see if any of my contacts are already facebook members, but it is done strictly off of e-mail addresses.
August 28th, 2007 at 8:21 am
hmmm, maybe www.polarrose.com can be of use. to use the pics that you got of your friends to find them on the different networks.