Can I get an amen?

Seems like this portable social networking stuff is catching on … after my post last week, more feed surfing reveals I’m not the only one talking about it (that point goes in the ‘duh’ category):

Brian Oberkirch is continuing his awesome tear with post after post in his portable social networking series.

Marc Canter gets in on things (yeah Marc, we know you’ve been talking about this since the dawning of time) … :-) … I’m looking forward to the Data Sharing Summit in September.

Dave Winer even chimes in with another view of somebody who’s been there, done that.

You know you’re onto something too when Wired does an article about it.

Finally, we get Fred Wilson argues that open social network is probably pointless for the average user. Drilling down in the comments you see Winer’s great rebuttal.

Its coming; in the near future, you won’t go to social networking sites to interact with your friends. Social networking will be a feature of every site. Powered by open standards that enable control, privacy and ease-of-control of personal data streams, the applications that are about to emerge are truly going to be phenomenal.