Brad Fitzpatrick: Google on the Social Graph Warpath?

Competition is good.  and right now there's a lot of it going on around the Int-ar-Web.

Altho Facebook is currently King of the Social Graph , it will be interesting to see what folks like Brad Fitzpatrick put together now that he's left SixApart and is working for the GOOG. 

See his recent presentation on Social Networking Portability (1MB PDF)  for the "open source" answer to Facebook's "gated community".  Pretty interesting stuff... Samuel Jackson was certainly correct. 

Roundup of other posts & articles on the Social Graph (yep, you're right too BradF):

• Dan Farber (ZDNet) [channeling Mark Zuckerberg]
• David Sacks (Geni.com) on the New Portals
• Dare Obasanjo (Microsoft) and Roach Motel followup
• Ross Mayfield (Socialtext) on Privacy
• Joseph Smarr (Plaxo)
• Brad Feld (Feld Thoughts)
• Brian Oberkirch (Like it Matters)
• Andrew Mager
• Jeremiah Owyang (Web Strategist)
• Tantek Celik @ BarCampBlock
• Microformats site on Social Networking Portability
• A distributed centralized Social Graph for us all (Marc Canter)

(definitely people-tagging the hell out of this one & spamming your Facebook feed something awful ;)

Comments

[Blake Burris]

nothin like some GOOG competition to liven up the partay.

[Michael]

Isn't Spock doing almost exactly what Fitzgerald proposes to do?

[Michael]

Isn't Spock doing almost exactly what Fitzgerald proposes to do?