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This is daisychain, our first public unveiling of a project we call social. The idea behind social was to make it easy to connect with all the people in your life, but without giving up control of your relationships.

If you're using Facebook, and one day you decide to stop, or another service comes along (Remember MySpace? Friendster? Orkut?) — any and all contacts you have cannot be exported. All your friends go away, and you have to find people again.

We think this is a bad idea.

Bad for you, and bad for society.

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Start simple, start with status updates like Twitter and Facebook already allow, and start getting people to begin updating their profiles from something they can control:

Once you're comfortable and on-board with this, let's take your ideas, suggestions and feedback, and build the social networking software that we all want, and can all use.

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- Let's make that software available to everyone in the world, so instead of having one big company in California with all of our secrets, we can rely on friends and family, or even run our own personal networks.
- Let's build the escape rope in to all these networks, so people are always able to pick up and leave whenever they feel like it, leaving a forwarding address if they choose.
- Let's make changing your social network a little more like moving house and a little less like starting again without friends or contacts in a foreign city.

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Who are we? We're a ragtail group of artists and geeks working to bring this to you.

You don't have to trust us with your personal information, and in fact, we'd rather you didn't.

We'd like you to join us and be a part of a revolution in the way people share and socialize on the web.

Let's make the World Wide Web into the Social Web.

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Anyone reading this, regardless of your ability to program computers or make things look pretty can help make this software better.

You can tell us what you like, what you hate, how things should be different, and what features you'd like to see next.

We'll take the time to listen to you.

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