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…
Techniques and protocols to share information across the boundaries of individual websites.
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…
First exploration on how to connect social network sites. In the future it will no longer be necessary to re-create (and maintain) your profile, or make contact with friends for the 2nd, 3rd or 4th time on every new o-so-cool website; because the software will automatically do this for you.
Social Network sites open up to applications, but how can we make the network our own again?
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…
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…