A quick note here to point out Google’s latest approach to breaking down social network data warehousing.

One of the current struggles of which all social networking evangelists are aware is centered around who owns your data. Google’s embryonic OpenSocial seems to hold some promise there.

What is sometimes missed, but becoming more pervasive as we are now users of multiple different social networking sites, is how to create relationships beyond the boundaries of Facebook, MySpace or Friendster. Google seems to have a solution via their SocialGraph API that would let you scrape various online spaces in order to navigate interpersonal relationships across various platforms.

To top it all off, they gave us a nice video!

The links are based on XFN and FOAF markup, so I can see some adoption problems there. My blogging software allows me to manage these, but it certainly isn’t foremost on my mind. Facebook app, anyone?

Read more about it at Google Code (link), and thanks to WeSeePeople for catching this.