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added 2008 Sun Mar 30 7:00:00 by unknown user
Marc Canter takes on the first aspect of the mesh: identity. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Thu Dec 27 7:00:00 by unknown user
2007 was a year of solidifying open technologies like OpenID, OAuth, Microformats, XMPP, and others. The challenge now for 2008 is working together to build upon these technologies to create true data portability -- while keeping people in charge. Social networks may be different around the world, but the one common theme of all these conversations is that we're all getting sick of them! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Sat Oct 13 15:00:00 by unknown user
"Allowing users to import contact lists from other services is a useful feature. But the means have to justify the ends. Empowering the user to import data through an authentication layer like OAuth is the correct way to export data. On the other hand, asking users to input their email address and password from a third-party site like GMail or Yahoo Mail is completely unacceptable." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Fri Oct 5 7:00:00 by unknown user
Tantek's presentation on Social Network Portability at Fundamentos Web 2007. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Fri Sep 21 7:00:00 by unknown user
Dave details the Six Apart approach to opening up the social graph. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Tue Aug 21 7:00:00 by unknown user
'There?s talk lately of the social graph problem: ?people are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every site.? One proposed solution is to create an open, interoperable representation of our social relationships on the web. Web apps would use this unified contacts store instead of building their own. But is the ?social graph problem? a real one for most people? Might the average Internet user be better off with a distributed and fragmented online social graph?' Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks