Are you tired of entering your information every time you sign up for a new service? Are you fed up with adding the same contacts from scratch on every social networking site? The building blocks for portable social networks already exist. OpenID, microformats and OAuth let us build open, user-controlled networks. We'll talk about why this is good for users and how to actually put these building blocks in place.
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