RE: Background information onesocialweb

Hi Melvin, answers below.


	On 2 February 2010 20:17, Alard Weisscher
<alardweisscher@gmail.com> wrote:
	

		Hi all,
		
		We're presenting our onesocialweb initiative for the
first time outside the company tomorrow at the social web XG. Yes, it's
an exclusive to all the social web XG mailinglist subscribers. So we
would appreciate it if you could not socialize the website nor the
screencast before our 'official' launch at Fosdem this weekend in
Brussels. Thanks for that.
		
		You can find general information on what this initiative
is all about: http://onesocialweb.org/index-live.html 
		
		We've also created a little screencast so you can get a
glimpse on what progress we made so far:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGLcEN9hFw0
		
		We've seen some great discussions on the mailing list,
so we look forward to some lively discussions and feedback on the call!
		


	Thanks for the presentation.  This looks like a great
initiative.  A few questions:
	
	1. I run a small Openfire XMPP server, so would be happy to test
your plugin, when released.  We're looking at around March for this?
	  

 Yes, we expect to release our first release of the plugin as well as
the Google webkit and Android client end of March.

	 
	2. Do you have any reference to the ACL language that you
mentioned during the call?
	 

You can see the general picture of it in the XMPP protocol proposal:
http://onesocialweb.org/spec/1.0/xep-osw-activities.html#sect-id2774754
We expect more discussions on this at the XMPP summit and plan to
develop this further before our March release.

	 
	3. Some members of the group put together some Social Network
Platform Functionality.  Would you say this broadly aligned with your
initiative?
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/SN_Platform_Functionalit
y  --  Any notable differences?
	 

Easy to stumble over semantics here without clear definitions. I think
in essence we are considering pretty much all of the functions mentioned
on the wiki, although their exact meaning is not always fully clear. 
 
We don't support multiple identities, as in identifiers. Just like in
the email world you can have several identifiers (alice@wonderland.lit
and badgirl@naughtyworld.net). We are however considering coupling with
the special relation called 'me' effectively granting yourself the
rights for everything on another account. In addition you can determine
who sees what which also acts as a form of identity or profile.
 

	 
	4. You mentioned a RESTful API as an option.  Do you think your
solution could be made to be compatible with Linked Data, and, for
example, the 100 million FOAF profiles already out there in a
distributed Social Net.
	 

There is more thinking required to see how an XMPP based system can be
best connected to the web world. I at this stage do not see any problems
with exposing (or reformatting) the existing data in our system and
making that available to other systems.The other way round bringing data
is more complicated, does it then concern a one of import or do things
need to be synchronised? More investigation would be required.\\
 
All the best, Alard