Fwd: Press release/Final Report being released today

FYI

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org>
Date: 1 October 2013 10:52
Subject: Press release/Final Report being released today
To: Ellen Feaheny <ellen@appfusions.com>, Donald Buddenbaum <
buddenba@us.ibm.com>, Elizabeth Rose <ERose@omaorg.org>, "
internal-socbizcg@w3.org" <internal-socbizcg@w3.org>, "rawnshah@gmail.com" <
rawnshah@gmail.com>


 Press release below, please use whatever means you have to spread it! The
W3C website homepage should be updated shortly to announce the news. And if
any of you can write articles for the popular press or your blog, now would
be a great time :)
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Today, the W3C officially releases the Final
Report<http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/report.html>on the
* Social Standards: The Future of Business* workshop today and announced to
its Advisory Committee that chartering of new social standards will begin.

The W3C-OpenSocial Foundation joint workshop was convened with the goal of
formulating a standardization strategy to make "social" a first-class
citizen of the Web. The current landscape around social applications on the
Web is fragmented, holding back business results; the Open Web Platform,
with W3C's royalty-free patent policy, offers a sound base for moving
forward.

Conceived by the W3C Social Business Community
Group<http://www.w3.org/community/socbizcg/>,
the workshop was hosted by AppFusions and sponsored by IBM and the Open
Mobile Alliance <http://openmobilealliance.org/>.  The workshop featured
two-days of presentations and intense discussions of the challenges, use
cases, and potential standardization strategies for social. The workshop
brought together over 70 individuals from more than 50 companies around
this theme, ranging from start-ups like Crushpath to established enterprise
social networks like Yammer. Boeing, AT&T, Dachis Group, Ford, Google, IBM,
Jive Software, MIT, Mozilla, Oracle, SAP, SugarCRM, Salesforce, Telecom
Italia, Tibco, UCF, W3C and many other industry leaders and social business
platform corporations were at the workshop.

 The lack of adequate standards makes it difficult to create platform
bridging or application integration software that comprehensively serves
mainstream social business needs of both users and organizations. A number
of points of consensus emerged in the creation of this roadmap, including
establishing one or more new Working Group(s) to create the next version of
OpenSocial on top of the Open Web Platform, the creation of a group
responsible for coordinating activities and messaging in the social space,
and pursuing  workthe federation of social profiles, common data formats
such as ActivityStreams <http://activitystrea.ms/>, and work on "NoSQL"
graph-based data" such as pursued by the Property Graph Model and API
Community Group<http://www.w3.org/community/blog/2013/09/19/call-for-participation-in-property-graphs-model-and-api-community-group/>.
New working groups around social standards at the W3C will be discussed in
the Social Business Community Group <http://www.w3.org/community/socbizcg/>
.

Workshop discussion topics included:

   - Key use cases and requirements driving social business
   - Technologies that can be standardized to solve the problems facing
   social business
   - Overall architecture of social business interoperability needs
   - The difference between standards inside the enterprise and across
   enterprises
   - Organic approaches that are evolving without standardization, such as
   user engagement and custom integration designs
   - Next steps for evolved social specifications, ranging from OpenSocial
   to the Federated Social Web

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"For a long time, the W3C has thought that social standards need to be a
first-class citizen on the Web. By partnering with the OpenSocial
Foundation, we will lay the groundwork for this next step in the evolution
of the Web, at our joint workshop in August," said Harry Halpin, a W3C team
member. "We expect that social standards will eventually have as huge an
impact as HTML5 has had, both across the enterprise and for users."

"OMA is a pioneer in the area of social network standardization, leveraging
early specifications and actively liaising with W3C and OpenSocial to
achieve an end-to-end, standard solution in the mobile space," said
Laurent-Walter Goix, Mobile Social Network Champion at OMA. "We're proud to
have sponsored this workshop, which comprehensively addresses social
business by joining the needs, opportunities and minds of many industry
players towards a timely and relevant standardization effort."

"There is a tremendous need for a standardized component model for delivery
of cloud applications into the enterprise, and across many platforms.
OpenSocial is the only community-led initiative working in this space to
define a standard," said Mark Weitzel, President of the OpenSocial
Foundation. "In working with the W3C, we believe that we can accomplish
more and reach a broader audience of developers to proliferate and optimize
solutions across enterprises. We are excited to progress our objectives
with these upcoming discussions in San Francisco."

 *About AppFusions*

AppFusions is a leader in packaged platform-to-platform integration
solutions bridging information silos, and streamlining enterprise process
and data redundancies. As early development adopters, AppFusions is already
deploying OpenSocial-compliant integrations with Jive
Software<http://globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=5R9ElGpmVmBaZQrqHiR-aQYUfRXrLrVN_LRdmASIukNua_TqLhM_P0l3l6sLQ_YNY03HncmjrpkKQ-tXUwD_wQ%3D%3D>or
IBM
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one side, and
Atlassian<http://globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=Z1gckF0OViYOwN1RQS-NVMWwq63Fft4NRYg87kgdtld4o82nGkwBEtLgGVOocP94xmGzhZoC2HRfFJKkdMYj0w%3D%3D>
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the other side.

Overall, the company's achievements include packaged solutions with
Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Crowd, IBM Connections, IBM Sametime,
Jive, Box<http://globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=l8i-VozW1wmcnIoQ9kwJRj3PKN8EifleJSWLQMsuPJJeiFlSXXS1eNxoET4Bi6Vu>,
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and more. AppFusions' customers include Fortune 10s to SMBs. Learn more at
http://appfusions.com<http://globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=L8ICTeit28FgsYfY_hlLfuOxuRDkEIi9FHGQquflyY5L0kWDxySl4gpvZ7yka7a3zxvyby30jHXKCYDZwTiGVw%3D%3D>
.

*About Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)*****

OMA is the wireless industry’s focal point for the development of mobile
service enabler specifications, which support the creation of interoperable
end-to-end mobile services. OMA drives service enabler architectures and
open enabler interfaces that are independent of the underlying wireless
networks and platforms and that work across devices, service providers,
operators, networks, and geographies. More information at
www.openmobilealliance.org. *
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