Jeff Reifman gives in Enterprise Opensource Magazine a technical overview of some ideas for an open source infrastructure for social networking.

As Microsoft’s recent $240M investment in Facebook gives FB all the capital it needs to further its grand ambitions, some are concerned that one corporation should control so much information about the detailed personal activities and connections among individuals. Even before OpenSocial launched today, one individual had decided to outline an open source software architecture to address these concerns. He has published a technical overview of his ideas for an open source infrastructure for social networking, calling it ‘Breaking Open Facebook with Open Source Software.’

Read the rest of Jeff’s architectural overview. (image)