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White Paper — Open-CI

Open-CI is a new standard that enables social networks to work together seamlessly. By enabling interoperability Open-CI removes the waste of time and closedness currently inherent in social networking. Any party interested in implementing this standard can do so with relative ease using existing technologies and the guidelines provided by Open-CI.

Open-CI

What is Open-CI?

Open-CI is a set of rules based on open standards enabling different web sites to work together intelligently. Open-CI enables users to use the same account and profile to create connections and data across websites.

Beside the main social networking site, smaller sites can also implement a light version of Open-CI. This way a site with a specific purpose can enable social collaboration, without needing to implement the overhead of user management.

Who uses it?

anyMeta is a social network built by Mediamatic Lab used by the crea...

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Posted by: Alper Çugun, 14 Sep 2008, 22:28
Keywords: Communication, Community, Network, Open Source, Software
Federating Social Networks / 8 1 14

BarCamp Amsterdam III

Federating Social Networks

The technical and organizational challenges of portable social networks are daunting but the promises are great! Finally we'll be using one profile to interact with people and documents in a network of federated communities.

This is the follow-up event for the Federating Social Networks workshop (Dec. 2007). We will show progress on the roadmap that was layed out at the FSN workshop and determine what is still to be done. And there will be discussions and presentations, and work on getting implementations going.

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Solving Social Network Fatigue

Social Network sites open up to applications, but how can we make the network our own again?

A social network site is a website where we share some common interest with other people. That interest can be your personal life (Facebook), your professional career (LinkedIn), your sport, your hobby, or just a single conference (Picnic Network).

All these networks have one thing in common: they are walled gardens, islands that force their users to rediscover their friends and re-explain who they are.

At Mediamatic Lab we are exploring methods to connect all those islands, creating an archipelago where you can travel from island to island.

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    Found in Lijang, Yunnan - province of China

    • Social Networks Should be Fun

    A common interest is what fuels most sites. It brings people together, it leads to discussions, creativity and close relationships between people. Groups, hobbies, clubs, it is the glue of society. Social networks bring that glue to the internet, make it possible to interact from our homes to interact with the very same people we know from the sport field, that conference or some photo we shared online.

    We have more than one interest. We might have more than one career. And we definitely have more than one group of friends. All those groups will most definitely not be present on one sin...

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    Posted by: Ino Paap, 17 Dec 2007, 11:39
    Keywords: Information, Linking, Anymeta, Network, Software, federating social networks, fsn, interoperability, data portability
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Federating Social Networks / SNES 00

Techniques and protocols to share information across the boundaries of individual websites.

    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 ser...

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    Posted by: Ino Paap, 17 Dec 2007, 11:36
    Keywords: Network, Anymeta, Code, Computer, Hacking, Open Source, Software, Technology, federating social networks, interoperability, data portability
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Federating Social Network Borrel

Celebrating cooperation

First exploration on how to connect social network sites. In the future it will no longer be necessary to re-create (and maintain) your profile, or make contact with friends for the 2nd, 3rd or 4th time on every new o-so-cool website; because the software will automatically do this for you.