I think that ultimately what we need is a consistent portable way of representing your social and personal data on the web. Give third parties individualized ac

I think that ultimately what we need is a consistent portable way of representing your social and personal data on the web. Give third parties individualized access to discrete portions of that data. Retain the ability to revoke that access at will. The current explosion of data duplication is a huge mess. Edit: Perhaps OAuth [http://oauth.net/ http://oauth.net/] is a good starting point.