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Facebook should be opened up, and here’s how.
In theory, Facebook can be replaced with a distributed set of tools. RedHat’s Mugshot is a step in this direction. Our problem isn’t walled-gardens, because the one killer application of Facebook is permissions and confirmations.
OpenID already provides the infrastructure in which each person is a URL. Meta data [...]