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@Guy – Good point about people taking their data on you to other places. Guess it comes down to being careful who you befriend. Scoble may find himself losing a few friends…

I think we all have to recognise that the terms and conditions we agree to on web sites where we share our data is not just small print one can ignore – like most small print, it’s precisely that which should be big print, as it’s important. And remember, most of these terms can be changed at the whim of the site owner – ‘free’ hardly describes it – ‘over a barrel’ may be closer.

… now, what does it say in TechCrunch UK’s T&C – and where exactly is the server that holds this comment located… and why does it still say © 2006 at the bottom of the page?

1. Plaxo have been planning to be a OpenID provider for several months so nothing new. They already consume openid and barely support microformats. Given their recent FB/Scoble fiasco they needed something to deflect the news and this is it.

2. Given their FB Beacon fiasco and their Scoble lockout, they too needed some good news.

3. As for Google no suprise given Brad invented openid and rcently joined them.

The thing with all three is to see it implemented because Kevin Rose promised openid support for Digg last year and has never delivered it.

The other question is will google replace their authorisation mechanism with Oauth and broaden their support for microformats.

Fogive me for being a little skeptical as in Web 1.0 we saw Microsoft do the same with the Java Forum and pretend to support Java before creating FUD and Fear and then breaking it up.

If I was FB, Google and Plaxo I would want to have someone on the inside just in case or to steer the standards their way commercially,.

But that said congrats to Chris Saad and Chris Messina, lets hope this works.

Lastly I have one other concern. If people I befriend can take my data in their social graph elsewhere, what is to stop them importing it to sites I do not want to give my data. What if Scoble took his 5000 friends and decided to join Hustler and import his social graph without my permission. Whose data is it then? his ir mine?

(Type “scoble facebook” into the search engine of your choice, if you need to know more).

By recognising that the ’social graph’ is owned by the individuals who create those graphs, and with portability built in, it means that we, as the subjects and owners of the data, will not have that data locked in to any single site or set of variable terms and conditions.

It does amaze me that it has taken so long for social networks to realise that, in order to ensure their long term survival, they all need to come out of the silos and have open standards of data exchange and portability.

However, now that they are dismantling the walled gardens, the issue of verifying identity online will be even more vital. Are you the real Mike Butcher? Am I the real Digital Biographer?

I can see a whole new opportunity for openID providers here…