Re: W3C - Social Web Working Group

On 2014-07-21 18:39, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 21 July 2014 18:29, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com <mailto:anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 2014-07-21 18:23, Sandro Hawke wrote:
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>         On 07/21/2014 12:20 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
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>             By pure accident I found this:
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>             Anders
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>         It's also being announced on the front page, w3.org <http://w3.org>, and in various
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>                 -- Sandro
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>     It doesn't appear that WebID is a part of this effort.
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>     This is somewhat strange because a Social Web without a login seems like a moderately clever idea.
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> You need to have a paradigm shift, that webid is nothing to do with login.

Apparently not.  We are going to build the decentralized Social Web on Facebook Connect then?
This seems at odds with at least one of the Chair's missions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNmKO7Gr4TE

Anders
puzzled, very puzzled


> WebID facilitates a huge number of use cases, which get built out bit by bit.
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> For example hetrogeneous friending is something that's trivial to do with WebID (just add a hyperlink to your profile with the other friend's webid) but very hard to do in many social web systems.
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> The value of webid is from unexpected reuse, because of the freedom it offers.
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Received on Monday, 21 July 2014 17:19:12 UTC