next stop: semantic metaverse

Today, Google announced their Social Graph API. The scoop:

This is definitely a step in the right direction. I was playing around with FOAF back in college, about 4 years ago. I’m amazed that it took this long to gain adoption.

Now, on to the big issue that Google is not addressing (yet): I don’t want my social graph to be public! Please, somebody come out with a service that lets me:

• import my social graph from sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc.
• de-dupe and match
• share my social graph with select sites (like OpenID does for authentication)
• manage my social graph in one place
• sync my social graph across sites

Is anybody working on something like that? If not, who wants to help me build this?

Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have decided to standardize on the same protocol for the sitemap files that their crawlers use to navigate the sites they index. This is awesome, but it gets better: Google sitemaps are already compliant with the new standard, so if you already have such a sitemap, everything is dandy :)

Techcrunch has the scoop.

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Enjoy!