[Sigia-l] SIG-IA group on Facebook - do or die?

[Patrick Grizzard]

I posted this yesterday under another subject heading. Although the  
intent is to begin by aggregating contacts, it seems reasonable that  
it could expand to enable portability of ratings, reviews, and other  
preference data.

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/opening_up_the.html
http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/


  From the O'Reilly post:

"Their project attempts to solve the problem of multiple overlapping  
social networks. This overlap makes it harder to establish new sites,  
as people tire of rebuilding networks on each social networking site.  
As a non-profit and opensource project, it aims to be vendor-neutral  
and usable by all vendors."

  From the project site:

"[Goal:] Establish a non-profit and open source software (with  
copyrights held by the non-profit) which collects, merges, and  
redistributes the graphs from all other social network sites into one  
global aggregated graph. This is then made available to other sites  
(or users) via both public APIs (for small/casual users) and  
downloadable data dumps, with an update stream / APIs, to get  
iterative updates to the graph (for larger users)."





On Aug 23, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Ziya Oz wrote:

> Andrew Boyd:
>
>> I am coming to think that no social networking app is THE ONE. I  
>> think
>> that there is a blend that make up an acceptable solution between  
>> them
>> - here is the scary thought of the day: what if there is no one great
>> social networking site/application/utility/format to rule them all?
>
> It's theoretically possible through confluence of events for a single
> company to achieve dominance (like, say, Google did in search), but  
> in this
> case, it's also possible and perhaps likely for standard-based  
> formats to
> emerge that would allow personal ID, federated log-in, data
> transportability, widget APIs, etc., which can then be used by all SN
> companies. That also would be the ideal.
>
> --
> Ziya
>
> "Every problem comes from a solution."
>
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