- From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
- Date: 31 May 2013 13:39:02 +0200
- To: "Simon Tennant" <simon@buddycloud.com>
- Cc: "Mikael Nordfeldth" <mmn@hethane.se>, public-fedsocweb@w3.org
Simon Tennant: > Simon from buddycloud here. > > As Mikael was saying, eash of these networks has a different application > logic. Imagine trying to unify Twitter and Facebook: Facebook has a one-one > follower model, Twitter has a decoupled following model. In Facebook I can > post into your stream. In Twitter not. The use case of unifying Twitter and Facebook sounds interesting, but solving it is not first of all a technical problem. > The devil is always in the details and trying to mash together different > protocols and apps will end up with some horrible grey good that is > software by the lowest common denominator. One of the tasks of this Community Group is to help creators of different apps to make them more interoperable. I agree that this is significantly more difficult than establishing mail protocols. Requiring a different client and user interface for every Social Media platform is not the optimum: I am convinced that we can do better. Semantic interoperability is relevant in this context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_interoperability Cheers, Andreas
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