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Google launched yesterday an API for their index of current relationships that exists on the internet today, ie social graphs. The great move here by Google is that instead of just giving access to other social networks, they actually index the open standards that already exist today such as XHML Friends Network (XFN) and Friend of a Friend (FOAF). These standards are based on simple XHML markup that as microformats are integrated in the site as meta information which I think really is how the future will look. It will probably take pretty long before this hits big but it is definitely the right step towards Social Graph freedom and also a step towards the Semantic Web. See the video below of Brad Fitzpatrick explaining it all.