Re: The Case for the Federated Social Web

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Antonio Tapiador del Dujo
<atapiador@dit.upm.es> wrote:
> I wish we had something like this in academia, so you could follow some
> research colleagues and get updates about new publications, congress they
> are attending, etc.

we (the unhosted project) are actively targetting academia for the
read-write-web protocol that we are promoting ("remoteStorage"). it's
not social out of the box, but we believe it's a fundamental building
block, and a big step towards what we're all trying to build here.

Academia is where email and the web started. As i said, remoteStorage
is a start, not the whole thing. it's a building block which other
people can use to build user-centric tools on top of.

So far we have been talking to the Netherlands and Greece, if you
think you could run (and administer) a remoteStorage server at your
university, or convince your university to do that, then we could add
Spain on the map for at least that part of the stack.

Also, you could add 'the case for academia' to
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Main_Page#Why_federation.3F
if you have ideas about what its utility would be?


Cheers,
Michiel

Received on Friday, 6 July 2012 09:26:45 UTC