"Logged in with fedsocweb"

I was just using AirBnb while logged in with facebook. this works
great, because you don't have to create an AirBnb account, yet by
checking someone's list of facebook friends as displayed inside
AirBnb, you can check whether you are dealing with a scammer or a
psycho or a normal person.

A similar experience is when using Lanyrd while logged in via Twitter,
there you have the added cool feature of seeing what conferences
people "close to you" will be going to, and if you follow a high rate
of the speakers and/or attendants of a certain conference or workshop,
chances are you might at least want to know about it.

I guess it's obvious where i'm going with this...

how can we generalize this model to fedsocweb? Of course, there's
advanced features like automatically registering a bunch of
intent-handler (share, add to calendar, send as private message) for
your home-node, In both cases a huge value is already obtained by just
OAuth-ing to pull in the friends list.

the work on OAuth discovery is still very much in progress, but i
think this is an interesting opportunity. in your webfinger profile,
you can expose three small pieces of information:

- the end point to obtain the friends-list (this can be either
cross-origin or server-to-server)
- the end point to obtain an access token for said friends-list.
- (unless we pick 1 canonical one)  which format the friends-list is in

Would this be cool?


Cheers,
Michiel

Received on Sunday, 8 July 2012 11:14:58 UTC