Re: Let's blow some new life into this community group

On 4 July 2012 21:26, Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> wrote:

>  On 04/07/12 02:29 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>  Perhaps some of FSW might also think about identity.  Arguably our
> biggest challenge as technologists is to see, to identify, and to name.
>
> A good identification system lends itself quite well to federation, in
> that you can give yourself a headstart.
>
> I suppose there's 2 schools of thought.
>
> 1) Facebook has identity on the social web sewn up
> 2) Everyone else competing for the rest of the pie
>
> I've never been clear on how FSW identifies a user, tho I've been
> impressed with the original status.net / identi.ca implementations of
> FOAF.
>
> I see new social nets come up every few months with a goal of federation.
> I always ask a simple question: 'how do you identify a user'.  Most of the
> time they dont know.  A really good method for identification makes it that
> much easier to federate with your peers, imho.
>
>
> Obviously identity is the root of any social network. Unfortunately, it's
> one of those subjects that gets insanely complicated really fast.
>
> People tend to mix up identity with remote login, authentication, profile
> data, and authorization.
>
> With OStatus we use either a Webfinger address like "evan@identi.ca"<evan@identi.ca>or an HTTP URL like
> "http://identi.ca/evan" <http://identi.ca/evan>.
>

Make sense.  Best of both worlds! :)


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> -Evan
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