Fw: social APIs -- any additions from your part of the world? HELP!

My deep apologies, that I forgot to Cc: the WG on this note. (One shouldn't multi task when sending important emails to large groups!)

I will forward any responses.

Ann Bassetti
From: Bassetti, Ann
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 9:10 AM
To: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org; w3c-office-pr@w3.org
Cc: team-busdev@w3.org
Subject: social APIs -- any additions from your part of the world? HELP!


Hello AC Reps and W3C Offices –

The Social Web Working Group needs your help!  Especially from those of you who are familiar with social tools beyond the common ones in USA and Europe.  For instance, if you use social tools in China, Japan, Korea, Eastern Europe, Russia, India, Middle East, African countries, Antarctica ;-)  ...   please help us.

The goal of the Social Web WG, per the charter, is "... to define the technical protocols, vocabularies, and APIs to facilitate access to social functionality as part of the Open Web Platform. These technologies should allow communication between independent systems, federation ... being part of the design."

We have documented API patterns of many of the prominent social network tools used in the USA and Europe (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Flickr, ...):  https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API_patterns


But what about other prominent social networking systems (e.g., Yandex, VKontakte, Sina Weibo, Tencent QQ, WeChat,  Renren, Cyworld, and any others you know about)?  Are there API patterns we have missed?  We cannot read those languages, and do not have anyone on our team that can.  We NEED your help!  Or from someone you might designate.

Please feel free to forward this request to anyone you think might be qualified and interested to help. One can respond to the Working Group (public-socialweb@w3.org<mailto:public-socialweb@w3.org> ), to the chairs of the WG (Tantek Çelik<mailto:Tantek%20(tantek@cs.stanford.edu)>, Evan Prodromou<mailto:Evan%20Prodromou%20(evan@e14n.com)>, Arnaud Le Hors<mailto:Arnaud%20Le%20Hors%20%3clehors@us.ibm.com%3e>), or to me<mailto:Bassetti,%20Ann%20%3cann.bassetti@boeing.com%3e>.

Thank you – Ann (and Working Group)


Ann Bassetti
Associate Technical Fellow
Boeing, IT Infrastructure
IT Technology & Quality Integration
mobile:  +1.206.218.8039
email:  ann.bassetti@boeing.com