Our Social life in a digital form

I keep struggling with updating, creating and re-creating my existing social connections to each and every interesting social service. I have gone or will go through the exact same work on Facebook, Linkedin, Pownce,... list goes on. At the same time as I choose one service to concentrate on, I end up being partially locked into it, and blocking myself (or at least making it hard) to successfully try out other similar services.

Engineer solution: I need to get my existing social network into a reusable and standard digital form.

This exact topic has happened to received wide debate from Joshua Porter and Brad Fitzpatrick and many others. Their articles and the ones tracing back to them give a fairly wide coverage of the need for "social graphs".

When we get a standard way to define and represent your social graph, we will officially step past web 2.0 to the next level of social Internet. A digital and standard form is just such a powerful tool for creating services, that we most likely can't even imagine the doors it will open. Of course it is also a very complicated problem to solve, as obviously social connections and objects are not an easy item to represent digitally with enough granularity.