To start with I’d like to share with you a link to link about interesting and relatively recent initiative by Six Apart and Google to open up the social graph. With the same people who engineered OpenId on board this is the place to watch.

Another article by Brad summarises what Google will probably attempt to archive in social networks.

Will the world be a better place with information about social contacts as accessible as a phone number? Will our trust to individual companies like Facebook and LinkedIn extend to the entire community? Will we have to exploit some Google UserRank hacks to increase our popularity?

With our social environment pretty much shaping and defining personal identity the importance and impact of global and open social graph cannot be overstated.

Let’s turn this page in the humanity history book and see where will it take us!