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March 4, 2008
Building the next generation open social network platform using open standards ..
It was a pleasure to meet Dan Brickley creator of FOAF in Cork at the web camp 2008 event where we both gave the keynote.
After our talk, Dan and I were discussing the following question.
If you were to build a next generation open social network platform from scratch today, which open standards would you include from the ground up? (BTW, this is a non mobile discussion i.e. we are talking purely of web standards although the discussion has obvious repercussions for Mobile)
Here is our list. Can you add more?
OpenId
Microformats
XMPP
FOAF
SparQL
OAuth
What else?
Any comments welcome
Posted by ajit at March 4, 2008 1:40 AM
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apml - user attrention
opml - subsription
MicroID - content ownership
thanks
saran
Posted by: saran at March 4, 2008 4:15 AM
Thanks Saran. This is good! rgds Ajit
Posted by: Ajit Jaokar at March 4, 2008 10:11 AM
CalDAV - calendar sharing
Free/busy URL - subset of CalDAV being developed by CalConnect
Posted by: Scott Mace at March 4, 2008 8:34 PM
Interesting topic Ajit. Lots of potential open standards for this. We could also ask what are the key requirements for open SN platforms and see which standards map onto that. Data portability is a key requirement, not just open APIs. They aren't necessarily the same thing.
Posted by: Paul Golding at March 5, 2008 12:49 PM
It was good to see you at BlogTalk.
You can add SIOC [ http://sioc-project.org ] to the mix. It's a format for representing user-generated content (social objects) and comes in handy when expressing content created by people on social networking platforms.
SIOC works well together with FOAF: http://www.w3.org/Submission/2007/02/sioc_foaf_skos_small.png
Posted by: Uldis Bojars at March 9, 2008 12:04 AM
Good to meet you too uldis.
Agree Paul - social network portability is a big issue and on my radar. Hope you are enjoying California weather! rgds Ajit
Posted by: Ajit Jaokar at March 10, 2008 8:26 PM