[OpenID] Distributed social networking with OpenID

[Evan Prodromou]

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 14:36 -0800, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> 
> > I've been thinking a bit about how to do distributed social network  
> > with
> > OpenID. Here's my current brainstorming:
> >
> > http://evan.prodromou.name/Open_relationships
> >
> >
> 
> I was under the impression that OpenSocial / Microformats XFN was  
> intended to solve this problem.  Am I misinformed?

Yes.

Open Social is a system for sticking widgets into pages. From
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ : "The ultimate goal is for any
social website to be able to implement the APIs and host 3rd party
social applications." 

XFN is a great output format for friends, and identifies people with
URLs, just like OpenID.* It lacks the step where the person named as a
friend is automatically notified of that fact. That's where the above
protocol steps in.

-Evan

* Modulo i-names, of course.
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