Social networks have become very popular and many people subscribe to more than one social network provider, for example Facebook and Orkut, in order to share all kind of information with their friends. But what about sharing information with your colleagues or customers? What about sharing confidential information and tracking/managing this shared content? What about data portability in general? This session will explain how social networks (custom and third-party) can be used and integrated with content management and other corporate software solutions and discuss why social networks will become the center of gravity for any (corporate) process.

Every couple of days new corporations and groups/communities are formed to tackle the various issues of (open) social networks. The big four (AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo) seem to create new APIs and protocols for social networking by the week. An overview of the most recent developments will be presented, whereas protocols and (micro)formats will be discussed and who and how these are actually being (not) implemented. This session will further discuss the future of email and how open source software will make the decentralization of social networks happen.