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Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon have just published a compelling post entitled, “Thoughts on the Social Graph.” If I could sum up their virtual thesis, I would say that it is a manifesto calling out for a semantic approach to social networks. Users would benefit greatly if their social networking profile/friends list was an open data set that could be ported across all social networks. As social networks have evolved, from Friendster -> MySpace -> Facebook, users have been burdened with the tedious tasks of continuously re-entering their profile information and re-sending out invites to their already established friends list onto the latest social network of choice. This switching cost can lead to a social graph disconnect wherein friends can be disconnected during this manual process. This social [networking] commentary is good news to OpenID advocates as a portable social profile may be attached to OpenID; thereby, permitting a complete and semantic social network graph that is not controlled by Corporations (FOX [MySpace] and Facebook)–the web 1.0 silo mentality. This is an interesting and important topic that creates a virtual venn diagram of today’s top internet topics: the semantic web (Web 3.0), OpenID, collective intelligence, social networking, etc…
