Rich Kilmer was among about 70 Friends Of O’Reilly to attend the first ever Foo Camp (http://sgfoocamp08.pbwiki.com/FrontPage) to explore the so-called “Social Graph”.  This event was interesting because it was a vertical Foo Camp, had fewer attendees and relied more on demos of work being done than on general open topic sessions. 

Some of the best known people doing the actual coding work in this area were there from the likes of MySpace, Facebook, Plaxo and others.  Big topics of interest were the recent movements in OpenSocial, OAuth, data portability and the MySpace API. 

The 800-pound gorilla in room was privacy - not security of data placed by people on these Web servers run by the social networks - but the control over what an individual can do with information they post.