Brian Suda has a great article on Sitepoint about Portable Social Networks. 

By combining things such as microformats and OpenID we can start to own our online identity a little more and forgo the usual rigmarole of entering all of our contacts to every new social network that we join.

When you look at it the pieces aren’t that new.  I’ve been using microformats in my day job for a little while now and I’ve personally had an OpenID for well over a year as part of my ClaimID.  but the exciting part comes, as with everything web related, when you combine them.

Managing your online identity is becoming much more important and articles such as Brian’s is a great step forward towards achieving that.  There are some great links in this article and, if you’re interested, you should also check out another Brian’s portable social networks posts.

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Tags: portablesocialnetworks, opendid, microformats, briansuda

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