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White Paper — Open-CI
September 14th, 2008, posted by: Alper Çugun
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 ma...
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Federating Social Networks /
BarCamp Amsterdam III
Federating Social Networks
February 7th, 2008, posted by: Ino Paap
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.
Hope of the nation trying to get into the picture -
Taken on the market in Chennai, Mumbai 2006.
We will work on:
Progress and road maps
We will present the work we did till now and what we still have to do to get things working.
Technical stuff:
The tentative list of subjects includes:
XMPP Publish & Subscribe : changes, implementation
XMPP PubSub gateway : API description and how to use it
OAuth : how to make PubSub secure
Atom : which data do we expect, what should be pushed and what not
RDF : how to represent y...1 comment | bookmark:
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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?
December 17th, 2007, posted by: Ino Paap
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 Yunan - 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 mig...
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Federating Social Networks / SNES 00
Techniques and protocols to share information across the boundaries of individual websites.
December 17th, 2007, posted by: Ino Paap
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/fsnIn 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 se...
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Presentation
Federating Social Network Borrel
Celebrating cooperation
December 17th, 2007, posted by: Ino Paap
It was the 1st presentation on explorations to federate social network sites. From this day onward, it was no longer be necessary to re-enter (and maintain) your profile, or make contact with friends for the 2nd, 3rd or 4th time on every new o-so-cool website; The software automatically does this for you!
Of course, mediamatic thought this was an excellent excuse for a fantastic party!
Twitter, Six Apart and Mediamatic
During this weekend a group of international software makers worked at Mediamatic on protocols and techniques and explored the best options on how to work together. David Recordon (Six Apart, San Francisco), Blaine Cook (Twitter, San Francisco) and Willem Velthoven (Mediamatic) gave short reports and raised their glasses to social networking!
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