links for 2007-08-10

• Building Blocks for Portable Social Networks

  A great summary of the standards currently available (OpenID, various microformats, API’s) that could be used to create portable social networks.

  (tags: openid xfn microformats social_networks socialnetworks apis)

• National Archives Partners With CreateSpace and Amazon to Digitize Movies

  CreateSpace is entering the POD marketplace, so I would like to take this time to point out that Lulu’s api offers great opportunities for libraries and archives to sell already digitized content.

  (tags: apis lulu nara)

Related posts on portable social networks:

• BarCampRDU,Part 3, Social networking, Social browsing, and Microformats
• Faceted Friending: Using Tags to Increase Relevancy in Social Networks

Related posts on creative uses of the Lulu api:

• http://mchabib.com/2007/07/19/links-for-2007-07-19/
• http://mchabib.com/2007/07/28/links-for-2007-07-28/