- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:50:52 +0200
- To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- Cc: public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Harry Halpin<hhalpin@ibiblio.org> wrote: > That would be great. Just add them to the wiki here: > > http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/InvitedGuestSummaries > > Note that I summarized the Gypsi telecon. It doesn't have to be a huge > summary, just a paragraph will do - it will be for the final report to > the W3C. I've drafted you something from my notes. > > '''Sam Critchley from Gypsii - Meeting on > [http://www.w3.org/2009/06/24-swxg-minutes.html July 22nd 2009] ''' > > A number of businesses like <a href="http://www.gypsii.com/"> Gypsii > are making their business off of context-aware mobile applications for > social networking that make it easy for users to generate content. > First, there is a real need to standardize context information. > Second, they have to make their application for different phones, such > as the iPhone and Windows Mobile. Lastly, they would like an easy to > share data like phone numbers and while OpenID 2.0 can do this, it is > not well-known how to do this in an extensible manner. <a > href="http://www.perey.com/">Christine Perey</a> then hosted a > discussion of standards for measuring social networks. As a social > network is not just a web-site, the sheer number of accounts is not a > great metric, as many people make an account but do not use it. What > is needed is a metric of how much time a user spends on a social > networking service, and how that changes over units of time. An > ability to discover what components of a social web site a user spends > the most time on would be ideal. A simple standard for sharing this > type of information from the W3C would help analysts and researchers > interested in social networks. > >
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