Social Web Standards

Key ideas for a Social web, and the standards that support them

Open, Social Web Standards
XRD
OpenID
OAuth
Portable Contacts
AtomPub
Gadgets
Activity Streams
WebFinger
PubSubHubbub

Salmon
OpenSocial
Me
My Friends
Permission
What we do
Flow
Interaction
HTML
CSS
Javascript
Microformats
The problem:
babel
Why do we have so many users in
Beverley Hills
and
Schenectady
?
and
?
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90210
Why do we have so many users in
Over 1 billion users
Delegated login
t-shirt
not a
suit
the true test of openness is interoperation without knowing each other exist.
Faces
trust
mutual
media
phatic
publics
Kevin Marks
VP Web Services, BT
kevinmarks@gmail.com
http://kevinmarks.com
OpenSocial v0.5 - v0.7 focused on defining a social API for your favorite language (as long as it's JavaScript).
OpenSocial v0.8 enabled new client and programming models by adding server to server protocols.
http://xkcd.com/256
Empirical
Standards
traditional standards take more of an a priori approach, independent of real-world experience (data), while microformats take an a posteriori approach that is dependent on real-world experience
We want to send back news from our web explorations to our friends
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of what our brain has evolved to do. - Douglas Adams
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