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Jon Udell talks about social network fatigue and argues in favor of a common identity system

Increasingly I’ve begun to feel the same way about the various social networks. How many networks can one person join? How many different identities can one person sanely manage? How many different tagging or photo-uploading or friending protocols can one person deal with?

I’m sure everyone will agree that sign-in protocols should be extracted and made common. What else can and should be refactored? What can’t and shouldn’t?

I strongly favor openID as the standard for a common identity system.

Update: Tim O’ Reilly has a followup post to Jon Udell’s post. I liked the following quote from Tim’s post.

To use Ben Smith’s analogy about the internet as mother ship: if you were a proprietary LAN vendor trying to fight the internet, it was game over. But if you were a LAN vendor who was on the right bandwagon, you became Cisco.