A side project our company (Citrusbyte) has been working on is OpenFriends (http://getopenfriends.com/ http://getopenfriends.com/). It is an universal friendin

A side project our company (Citrusbyte) has been working on is OpenFriends (http://getopenfriends.com/ http://getopenfriends.com/). It is an universal friending system, which then can be subscribed to by various services (myspace, facebook, forums). We've been busy with our day jobs (consulting), so we haven't had a chance to polish it quite as far as it could be but your comment about users owning their own social network immediately made the connection in my head. Check it out, and shoot any feedback my way.