[OpenID] Distributed social networking with OpenID

[Evan Prodromou]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 10:40 +0100, tom wrote:

> > I logged into your Web site to leave you a note (the note was that
> > you're showing delegated URLs rather than entered OpenIDs, which is a
> > big mistake that needs fixing soon), but I don't know you from Adam.
> > We're not "connected" in any but the most trivial way.
> >   
> We have a bug reporting mechanism as does all GNU free software 
> packages.

I'll report it ASAP.

> Declaring relationships is easy.

No, it's not. Or, rather, doing it the way a "captive" social network
works is not easy -- or at least not easy with current OpenID-related
protocols.

On Facebook, Friendster, etc. I can declare a relationship to you, and
you will be notified of that declaration of a relationship. You can
respond in kind, ignore or even hide my declaration. This is something
that doesn't happen in typical XFN or FOAF or other open systems.

In AroundMe, I can declare a relationship to you, which is stored on
your service, and not mine. IWBNI, when I declare a relationship to you,
my own server stores that information, too.

> The idea is that I build my social network under my OP. I can then 
> OpenID login to a website and optionally authorize the website to use 
> certain information held under my OP account; one example would be 
> accessing for first degree network.

Oh, that's interesting. But wouldn't OpenID Attribute Exchange work fine
in that case?

-Evan

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