Building the next generation open social network platform using open standards ..

March 4, 2008 By

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

Filed Under: MOBILE WEB 2.0

Comments

  1. saran says:
    March 4, 2008 at 4:15 am

    apml – user attrention
    opml – subsription
    MicroID – content ownership
    thanks
    saran

  2. Ajit Jaokar says:
    March 4, 2008 at 10:11 am

    Thanks Saran. This is good! rgds Ajit

  3. Scott Mace says:
    March 4, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    CalDAV – calendar sharing
    Free/busy URL – subset of CalDAV being developed by CalConnect

  4. Paul Golding says:
    March 5, 2008 at 12:49 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.

  5. Uldis Bojars says:
    March 9, 2008 at 12:04 am

    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

  6. Ajit Jaokar says:
    March 10, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    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