Re: What is a social network?

Harry, this I liked:

 > What I think our role could be would be help provide guidance
 > for Web services that want to add these types of social features: Show
 > them how to add these features  in a open, extensible,
 > privacy-enhanced, accessible, internationalized and Web-based way.

Because this is what the emerging Social Web is about: weaving everything 
together. The Social Web is something on a meta-site level - it's a fragment of 
the future Internet. Therefore interoperability, accessability, privacy is 
fundamental.
As said before, SNS are only one chunk of social software available right now. 
Our work -- which I totally agree should be some guidance -- has to be cover 
more (no, not everything) classes of apps.
Some use-cases of not yet listed app classes. I will add them to the Wiki later.

- Skype: my Skype contacts are synced with a subset of my address book that is 
hosted in the cloud. Btw, it's the same set of contacts I have given Facebook 
access to to list them as my FB friends.
- iTunes: since my listening patterns are synced with Last.fm and managed by my 
Identity Provider (they are mine!), I don't need Genius anymore.
- Flickr: Flickr hosts all my pics now because they provide not only CC licences 
but also revokable access policies to 3rd parties. Facebook's access permission 
to the album of my last holidays expires next week.

Regrets for today's telco - got an appointment.

Cheers,
Alex

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Received on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 08:36:35 UTC