Open Social Graphs
Open Social Graphs are slowly gaining traction and now Dirk launched Noserub which is an open social network, something that allows for social graph portability. The idea of decentralization of your social graph becomes a little bit clearer based on Dirk’s last post in the Noserub Blog called _What decentralization is all about_.
There you see that you can look at Dirk’s profile on identoo.com from where you can visit mine on id.thylmann.net because I am listed as one of his friends. From there you can go to another profile that is again on identoo.com. These different nodes are now connected, and if I change something in my profile on id.thylmann.net, dirk notices on identoo.com. When I change my name in my id.thylmann.net account, it gets propagated to my other connections (in a future version ;)).
The entire system means that my social graph is my social graph. I have full portability of my data. I will also be able to move it to other services and I will be able to give access to my information to whom I please. This is really just a start, but it is looking good.