Social Web Standards

The problem:

babel

Me

My Friends

What we do

Empirical

Standards

Microformats

t-shirt

not a

suit

Portable Contacts

Activity Streams

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

Delegated login

Why do we have so many users in

Why do we have so many users in

90210

Beverley Hills

and

and

12345

Schenectady

?

?

http://xkcd.com/256

Kevin Marks

Open, Social Web Standards

Over 1 billion users

the true test of openness is interoperation without knowing each other exist.

VP Open Cloud Standards, salesforce.com

kevinmarks@gmail.com

http://kevinmarks.com

OpenSocial

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.

XRD

Gadgets

Javascript

OpenID

HTML

Interaction

WebFinger

CSS

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

RSS

AtomPub

Faces

Flow

phatic

PubSubHubbub

We want to send back news from our web explorations to our friends

Atom

Salmon

mutual

media

publics

trust

Permission

OAuth