Final report starting to take shape: state of social web and frameworks

Everyone,

  I've started editing the final report by trying to stitch together
the truly tremendous amount of information we gathered together on our
wiki. Here's a first draft of the first half [1]. There's been some
structural changes, i.e. merging the use-cases each into sort of
meta-use cases and then merging those in turn with the framework from
Christine and Renato.

There's a few changes to the framework as well.

1. Social platform rather than social application, reserving
"application" for bits of code (like in Javascript, but also FBML)
running over the web, i.e. like in WebApps. Otherwise confusion will
happen. Also removing "social web services" and saying "social
application" because the term "web services" in W3C circles tends to
mean W3C Web Services based on SOAP, which is pretty far from the
lightweight stuff we are talking about it.

2. Upon talking this framework system through with a few social
networking (but non-w3c) friends of mine, people think that while
"policy" is more accurate for a framework term, it will cause
confusion. Better to call it "privacy" and then explain what "policy"
is. Having sort of same thoughts about just calling "content"
framework a "social media" framework.

3. Since the "analytics" framework is quite far off and the "activity"
work (i.e. ActivityStreams, Ostatus) is quite mature, I'm thinking we
should add an "Activity" framework and put "analytics" in an emergent
section.

I'll try to do a proofread and add some pictures before tomorrow's
call. But no guarantees!

Let's discuss this tomorrow!

[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/FinalReport

Received on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 01:02:55 UTC