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Lots of sites care about “who you know”…

Lots of sites care about “who you know”…. Lots of talk about “opening up the social web”…. Lots of open social web “building blocks”…. …so where are we at?. …and where are we going?. The social web today is broken…. On each site, we still have to: Re-create an account

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Lots of sites care about “who you know”…

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  1. Lots of sites care about “who you know”…

  2. Lots of talk about “opening up the social web”…

  3. Lots of open social web “building blocks”…

  4. …so where are we at? …and where are we going?

  5. The social web today is broken… • On each site, we still have to: • Re-create an account • Re-enter our profile info • Re-find our friends • Re-establish our relationships • New social apps have limited options: • Create yet-another-silo (and start from scratch) -or- • Make a widget inside an existing walled garden

  6. …but help is on the way!

  7. Create a portable, durable online identity • OpenID • Sign up / sign in with an existing account • Link / share your profile data between sites

  8. Example: Sign up for Plaxo with OpenID

  9. Create a portable, durable online identity • OpenID • Sign up / sign in with an existing account • Link / share your profile data between sites • rel=me (XFN) • Consolidate your online identity with me-links • Social Graph API • See what your users said about themselves

  10. Public profiles enrich online identity

  11. Build and maintain real relationships • Contact APIs • Find people from your current address book • Leverage previously established relationships • OAuth • Share private data between trusted sites • Friends-list portability • Continuous discovery across multiple sites

  12. “A periodic check of new people from your networks on other sites”

  13. Stay up-to-date with the people you know • OpenSocial • Build social apps that can run anywhere

  14. OpenSocial

  15. Stay up-to-date with the people you know • OpenSocial • Build social apps that can run anywhere • RSS / Atom • Syndicate your activity to share with others • Jabber (XMPP) • Real-time update stream between sites

  16. In conclusion: • The social web is opening up…and fast! • (we’ve seen this movie before) • Time to get involved!

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