The ownership of SN profiles
As this thread on the Brad-inspired distributed SN google group (gah; using that term feels like such a betrayal) notes, getting information out of gated communities like effbee might prove legally challenging. Nevertheless, the net.zeitgeist’s definitely trending towards individual control of *stream; I see the potential in facilitating interface between individuals (and corporates, of course) to negotiate control of these major commodities of the twenteens.
I recently saw a press release (someone’s startup promoting extensions to robots.txt) disguised as a piece of technology news in The Age. How about announcing an OAuth-style automated licensing contract (ala CC) schema? (Version two could threaten microtransactions. :) I think smart VC’d grok that.
Hmm, maybe this is still Attribution.org…