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: OnLineChatAccount

- OpenID extensions

- Privacy

and then (of course) there’s Plaxo’s On-line Identity Consolidator - complete with source code. More thoughts here.

There have been mentions of all this social graph portability being implemented using XDI.

I’ve brought up Joel DeGan’s earlier work on Bloom filters - vis a vis - a PeoplesDNS.

And the saga and triumph of Facebook - continues. I also really like this Facebook app which displays MySpace profiles in Facebook!

Kurt brings up 8Hands.

Chris Saari points out that Microsoft’s PNRP (Peer Name Resolution Protocol) can do peer-to-peer routed DNS

And the Sun Babelfish talks about his blooming friends.

Dare also points out that Plaxo’s Pulse looks ALLOT like Google’s SocialStream.

Meanwhile here are some feedback comments which are also relevant to an on-going, open discussion on tagging:

- Matt Mowers posts on the state of tagging brought us back down memory lane on what COULD have been.

Matt summarizes and defends Technorati, but I still think that Technorati Tags we got only brought us 30% of the way.

Thomas Van der wal, Stephen Downes, Paul Walk, David Weinberger and Phil Pearson also throw their two cents in - but at the end of the day - it was Matt - who created something called ‘Live Topics‘ - who originally inspired me to the possibilities of tagging.

So WTF happened? Nada, niente, bubkiss.

Joshua Schachter scammed Yahoo out of some cash (thanks to Fred Wilson) but even Yahoo ignored their own acquisition and created MyWeb as a way of saying “we can fuck up and do stupid things - just like the rest of them. I have long term faith in tagging and we’ll utilize Technorati Tags APIs, but we ain’t done yet!

Meanwhile Paolo’s got something new called Nova 100. And something else - too!

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