Federating Social Networks / SNES 00
Techniques and protocols to share information across the boundaries of individual websites.
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8 Dec 07 09:00
Mediamatic Lab | Oosterdokskade 5 - 5th floor, Amsterdam (view on map) | T +31 (0) 20 638 9901 |
AnyMeta sharing diagram
A workshop where we explore methods to federate Social Networks. Subjects include publish & subscribe using XMPP and Atom Publishing Protocol, migration and consolidation of accounts and works across websites, distributed search and linking to content across websites.
See also: upcoming.yahoo.com/event/335427
Live coverage at: jaiku.com/channel/fsn
In all the buzz around social network portability, this one-day workshop will explore how social network services and Content Management Services can work together in a so-called federation. With a few presentations setting the stage in the morning, the rest of the day we will discuss the different protocols, formats and agreements needed to make such a federation possible.
Topics touched upon include:
• Aggregration of people, their profile information and works on other services.
• Migration and consolidation of people and their works.
• The ability to form relationships between people and works across services.
• Timely and efficient notification of changes.
• Distributed search.
Technologies that are likely to play a role include: Atom, the Atom Publishing Protocol, XMPP and in particular the XMPP publish-subscribe extensions, OpenID, OAuth, and more detailed descriptions of people and works using RDF, FOAF, vCard, microformats.
2 comments
Dataportability
The Data portability organization (dataporability.org) is getting pretty big. Their ideas are similar tot the Federating social networks idea.
Here's an article about he organization (in Dutch):
teletekstisdood.blogspot.com/2008/01/organization-dataportability.html
Their first report has just been released:
groups.google.com/group/dataportabilityactionevangelism/
Also they have started a nice project to share your thoughts on Data portability through video:
www.particls.com/blog/2008/02/video-project-share-your-thoughts-about.html
2 relevant articles
Since I can't seem to post to Jaiku, I'll comment here (until someone suggests a better platform for this discussion)
Interesting is that Microsoft (I know, of all companies) yesterday also seem to have launched something in the FSN space:
gigaom.com/2007/12/07/can-feedsync-gives-microsoft-social-networking-props/
And Opensocial seems to be having its issues:
groups.google.com/group/opensocial/web/whats-up-with-opensocial & www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/06/opensocial-still-not-open-for-business/
I do think both are developments to watch: Nobody is happy with going from zero to three competing 'standards' for exchanging social network data.