Re: OMA White Paper on social networks

OMA folks (in particular Goix Laurent Walter),

   Thanks, first great white paper! While after our conference, at least 
me (and perhaps some others in the Federated Social Web XG) went on 
vacation for the summer, we're getting ready to kick back into gear and 
started out by reading your white paper.  I've forwarded your liaison 
request to W3C management.

  I've got a few questions:

1) You mention lots of interfaces (MSN-1 and 4,5 in particular). After 
reading your report, while I agreed with most of the recommendations, I 
could not tell if you were planning on getting new APIs work. If so, we 
should make sure all the APIs work with DAP and other related APIs ala 
OpenSocial.

2) Also, what we had difficulty determining was how to treat the special 
features of mobile phones (geolocation comes to mind immediately). This 
may be related to MSN-2.

So in general keep us updated. Co-ordinating API work is always useful.

On a minor note, I noticed as regards talking about "relationships" you 
seemed to lean towards FOAF. You mean "kinds of relationships", i.e. a 
taxonomy of relationships? If you just mean a list of contacts, perhaps 
you should consider PortableContacts or the latest vCard as well (which 
can be transformed to RDF). I know DAP is working on mapping 
FOAF-vCard-Portable Contacts.

    cheers,
           harry


On 05/17/2011 12:29 PM, Goix Laurent Walter wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> As anticipated during my self-presentation [1] I have been working in 
> the OMA [2] together with other companies at a whitepaper dealing with 
> Mobile Social Networking.
>
> I can now share this whitepaper with you as it has just been approved 
> as public document. It is now available at [3] and is expected to be 
> communicated over the OMA public portal soon. I am also available for 
> clarifications on it if needed.
>
> Cheers
>
> Walter
>
> [1] 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-federatedsocialweb/2011Mar/0037.html
>
> [2] http://www.openmobilealliance.org
>
> [3] 
> http://member.openmobilealliance.org/ftp/Public_documents/REQ/Permanent_documents/OMA-WP-Mobile_Social_Network-20110516-A.zip 
>
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