> My dream for this kind of thing would be something akin to DNS but for identity (pseudo or not), and an open API for content. SDSI/SPKI had an interesting me

> My dream for this kind of thing would be something akin to DNS but for identity (pseudo or not), and an open API for content. SDSI/SPKI had an interesting mechanism for getting around Zooko's Triangle (before, I think, the latter was formalised): identities are keys (and therefore globally unique), with each user assigning his own names to people (e.g. 'Bill' or 'Ted'); users can then refer to other people as 'my wife's Uncle Bill' and 'Microsoft's Bill' and not confuse them. This is decentralised and federalised to the max, which is awesome. It'd be great for something like a Facebook killer, in which when I search for 'Adam Smith' I probably want the Adam Smith I went to gradeschool with, as opposed to the 18th century Scottish economist.