I’ll be home for Halloween but in the mean time I’m sitting in a hotel room, watching the World Series and cleaning out my aggregator starred items.

We held a standing room only ad hoc sessions at PICNIC in Amsterdam at the end of September on ‘open social networking’.  Here’s a video summarizing the session by Robert Gaal. 

Rumors have it - and Brad Horowitz more or less confirms it - that Yahoo is opening up in a big way.  I just hope it’s more than JUST Brad’s group that’s opening up!

Dan Farber has a great report from the SNAP conference and what a Facebook exec said about ‘the sanctity of the Facebook social graph’ - must read. 

Got to hang with Doc, Britt Blaser, Dean Landsman and R0mmel last night at Britt’s birthday bash.  Great to be with peeps who are older than me - so I’m not always the oldest dude in the room.  Brought Paolo and David Levitt along.

Social Graph-iti

Julian Bond has a good answer to “why a vendor should open up?” He uses LinkedIn as an example of a vendor who lets their users export their data via CSV.  Now LinkedIn could make it easier and support and even LEAD into some new standards - but something is better than nothing - I always say!

Social Networking - a lock-in strategy?

Some Microsoft game/creation tool limits what you can do with the tool - sounds like some old guard Microsofters are still there.

SIME 07 Stockholm, Nov. 14-15

How Microsoft got their Passport afterall

Ben Werdmuller thinks Facebook is a Red Herring

Dave Winer’s FriendFeed

Digital Curation - the opposite of social media 

User centric Identity interop - in Barcelona

Open Source VC funding is not drying up

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