The problem with using more and more social networks is with every social network you join you need to create profile then invite friends. There is no way to carry your data from one network to another network with out a hitch. Few smart people have already started working on this issue of DataPortability in detail. So lets not worry about it.
In the mean time few web apps have given users an opportunity to share the data. Take an example of adding all your Gmail contacts into Orkut. Login to Orkut and then enter your gmail id/password to invite all your contacts. This seems OK since both Gmail and Orkut is owned by the same company. Your id/password *does not* leave Google.

Where as the same model is used by LinkedIn to add your professional contacts. You need to give your userid/pw details of gmail/hotmail to add the contacts. This doesn’t seem OK even with their promise of privacy and purpose.

Now how would you achieve this with out sharing the credentials?
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I have openid from myopenid.com . The open id url is thejeshgn.myopenid.com. I use delegation and use thejeshgn.com as the open id url. But something going wrong today. I am not able to login to few of my regular services like
http://www.dopplr.com/openid
http://ma.gnolia.com/signin
http://jyte.com/auth/login

But I am able to login to some other services like
livejournal.com
productwiki, and few self hosted wordpress blogs.

When I try to login to first set of sites. It does not even take me to myopenid.com login page. The error usually I get is timeout or open idserver does not exist. Which means the consumer is failing to read the delegation info. Is anybody facing the same problem?

Example error from Jyte ” Connection timed out attempting to contact your OpenID server”
There are more updates below:
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