- From: hpl <hpl1989@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:55:45 +0800
- To: "public-fedsocweb@w3.org" <public-fedsocweb@w3.org>
- CC: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org>, Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>, pl h <hpl1989@gmail.com>
Thanks everyone~ It's great to find a specialized group on federated social web! I'm a PhD student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, specialized in Decentralized Social Networks. I started an open source project last year, https://github.com/hupili/snsapi The main purpose of SNSApi is to unify the interfaces and data structures of different social networking services (**from the user's point of view**). I started it with several mainland China OSNs because the interoperation is too difficult. Later I found many prior similar works, e.g. OpenSocial. Many federation protocols also have similar functions. People have different views of SNSApi, e.g. an IFTTT for programmers; a lightweight OpenSocial; component of a meta social network... Anyway, I think it at least gives people a way to fast script their social information flows. I'm drafting the white paper of SNSApi. Hopefully, I can release it at the end of this week. SNSApi is the type of dirty work. It does not design ideal data structures or protocols from scratch. Instead, we crop and modify the interfaces of existing social networking services (or existing 3rd party wrappers) to provide a unified view to upper layers. The small piece of middleware solved some of my painful problems in dealing with heterogeneous social networking services. Hope the practical experiences can help the standardization efforts here. I have a lot to learn before that. I'm reading the workshop posted by Harry. It looks relevant to me. However, I can not go there. Looking forward to Internet participation solutions. I'm also scanning the correspondances in the mail list. Can anyone suggest more pointers I should look at as a beginner? Many thanks, Pili On 30/6/13 8:29 PM, Harry Halpin wrote: >> The Federated Social Web Community Group was just joined by the 100th >> member. >> >> Welcome Pili Hu ! > That's great! > > Just to remind people, the W3C is thinking heavily of starting > standardization in this general area, but we need your position papers > ASAP: > > http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/ > >> Cheers, >> Andreas >> >>
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