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23rd November 2007 - Link Blog

Portable Social Networks: Take Your Friends with You. Brian Suda explains how OpenID, XFN and hCard can be used together to bootstrap portable social networks.

Posted 23rd November 2007 at 11:56 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 23rd November 2007.

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