Re: Background information onesocialweb

On 4 February 2010 17:27, Weisscher, Alard, VF-NL <
Alard.Weisscher@vodafone.com> wrote:

> 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_Functionality
> --  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.\\
>

Sounds great!  I'd be happy to help on this part, when things move to a more
advanced stage.  Best of luck with your demo!

>
> All the best, Alard
>