Dare Obasanjo (as usual) hits it on the head in evaluating four different meanings and definitions of what’s known as ‘Open Social Networks’. He also extrapolates a future where open social networking is inevitable. That’s great to hear - since Dare does the social networking stuff for Microsoft’s Live platform. Now I wonder if I have to create an ‘Open Letter’ to Dare - to get him to come to our DaaSharingSummit - Sept. 7-8?

Facebook, social capitalists and open networks - by Dan Farber. DISCLOSURE: Dan Farber is a 25 year friend and one of the smartest tech editors and writers around. Our kids also went to the same school.

Facebook has released the beginning of a data store API. Seems that Amazon’s leadership with their S3 web service (for storing files) is being picked up by other platforms. We’re using S3 as well as EC2. And we’re excited about Amazon’s new ‘payments’ web service.

Skydrive and GDrive announcements.

Welcome Spock. Any web service which Tim O’Reilly likes is…………. an authorized and fully hyped Web 2.0 meme.

Kaliya corrects Business 2.0.

The Movie studios poured between $100M and $150M into Movielink. Blockbuster paid $7M for it.

Megan McCarthy reports major news - well worth an item in Valleywag. NOT. We all love Megan - but come on - who cares about a sign crashing?

Congrats to Keith Teare in morphing Edgeio. Jeff Jarvis likes it.

20 ways to aggregate your social networking profiles

Bug+Bar+NYC

Kevin Burton and Xeni Jardin are in love with a Virgin.

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