Re: W3C - Social Web Working Group

On 07/21/2014 12:39 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 21 July 2014 18:29, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com 
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>     On 2014-07-21 18:23, Sandro Hawke wrote:
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>         On 07/21/2014 12:20 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
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>             By pure accident I found this:
>             http://www.w3.org/Social/WG
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>             Anders
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>         It's also being announced on the front page, w3.org
>         <http://w3.org>, and in various
>         media, today.
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>                 -- Sandro
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>     It doesn't appear that WebID is a part of this effort.
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>     This is somewhat strange because a Social Web without a login
>     seems like a moderately clever idea.
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> You need to have a paradigm shift, that webid is nothing to do with 
> login.  WebID facilitates a huge number of use cases, which get built 
> out bit by bit.
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> For example hetrogeneous friending is something that's trivial to do 
> with WebID (just add a hyperlink to your profile with the other 
> friend's webid) but very hard to do in many social web systems.
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> The value of webid is from unexpected reuse, because of the freedom it 
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At the risk of repeating myself [1], I think the WebID work is packaged 
all wrong to appeal to a wider audience, like the Social WG

       -- Sandro

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webid/2014Jul/0023.html
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>     Anders
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Received on Monday, 21 July 2014 16:48:13 UTC