DISQUS

Next time you may wish to try "perl -MO=Deparse obfuscated_file.pl" first.

@Jamie: "Pretty much the entire feature set of FriendFeed was available in Jaiku two years ago, plus more."

I tried signing up to Jaiku recently. The process failed with a system error before I had even finished. Two years of development for that?

Replying to the post Giles links to (since he doesn't have commenting enabled):

"The idea that I would want the same login at LiveJournal, where I post my personal soap operas semi-privately to very old friends with too much time on their hands, and Digg, where I post my own blog entries to promote them to the worldwide professional developer community, is flawed at best."

This is why a good OpenID provider (such as MyOpenID, who I use) will allow you to create personas. You can share as much or as little as you like between your various online accounts. Please don't rag on something until you're aware of all its aspects.

Matt (comment #6) says:

"We really need to push for an Open spec on social markup. A downloadable file (like OPML for feeds) marked up with microformats containing your social profile information... all you should have to do is import this file containing all info..."

That would be FOAF. It was around a long time before the current crop of social networks, and has had an awful lot of work put into it by some very smart people. I'm surprised nobody here has mentioned it yet, as it's an idea whose time has clearly come. See it at: http://www.foaf-project.org/