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

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Christine Perey <cperey@perey.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Off to a great start on the report!
>
> Although I will not be able to participate in today's conference due to
> travel (writing this from Internet cafe in Lhasa), I've quickly read the
> draft of SWXG final report on the wiki, made some comments and light editing
> of some sections for readability, etc.
>
> On the points below, I feel strongly that what we called "content" Framework
> emphasize, in the new and improved title, that this concerns users' MEDIA.
>
> I would drop the "social" since in the context of this report all is social.

Thanks Christine - I agree, the term "media" is better, and social is
redundant. Enjoy Lhasa. I'm still working on the report, lots more
edits to go in the first half today.

> Wish you a great meeting!
>
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> On 7/21/2010 3:02 AM, Harry Halpin wrote:
>>
>> 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
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Received on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:33:34 UTC