Google Unleashes the Social Graph; It's A Bunch of Theory

Well Google is at again. First they launch OpenGadget with the initial support of a coalition of the willing and then come up with this new project called the Social Graph API. Ultimately this new project is great in theory. It is preparing for the day that social networks decide to open up their list of contacts publicly to the web. As I wrote yesterday, even with the new DataPortability workgroup, the odds of social networks suddenly opening up is extremely slim.