So I spoke at SuperNova 2004 today on Digital Identity.   I gito to hang out with the original blogging.la (blogrolling.com meister) Jason DeFillippo - who was taking photos like a madman, as I sang opera and in general - cuased as much commotion as possible.

Here's a shot of Ray Ozzie - who in case you don't know - invented Lotus Notes and is the founder and CEO of Groove.

Tomorrow I get to hear Clay Shirky.

Andrew Leonard has written an excellent overview of social networking and "just what a friend is" in Salon.  It's a two part series.

Andrew kind of  took all my statements at face value, but it would have been nice to dive a little deeper into the various schemes being implemented right now and what'll be possible in the future - in so far as levels of relationship granularity.

Some folks just want a zero or one, take it or leave it approach to relationships - while others (like our PeopleAggregator project) support many levels of relationships.  No matter what, as long as we apply these social networks within particular contexts - like gaming, being Gay or within a virtual Silicon Valley - the granularity of relationships will come.

It's the only way to model real-life.

Joel De Gan has recently been Slashdotted - linking an article he wrote on a project he did for work.

The project entailed building a stand alonbe desktop app with php (on the client side) using PHP-GTK.  Pretty nerdy - but it works.

The idea is that stand alone apps, running a full copy of php - can reside on your client machine - monitoring webapps, web services or just about anything else.