links for 2007-09-23

“Google seems to be planning to add a social layer on top of the entire suite of Google services, with Orkut as their initial main source of social graph information and possibly adding third party networks to the back end as well.”

“Your content and data should be yours to manage and do with as you please. Your images, writing, tags, profile, blog entries, comments, testimonials, video, and music should be yours to download and move anyplace you want.”

“Ultimately make the social graph a community asset, utilizing the data from all the different sites, but not depending on any company or organization as “the” central graph owner.”

“if you manage a social networking service, we strongly encourage you to embrace OpenID, hCard XFN, FOAF and the other open standards around data portability.”