On Nov 2, 5:28 am, kiakanpa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > problem of social networking. Until there is a common DECENTRALIZED > social network this is all a bit pointless. I can develop an app that > can be ran on myspace and linkedin (for example), but until a myspace > user can add a linkedin user as a friend we are still stuck with the > current 'silo' social networks.
I agree with you 100%. I was disappointed as i learned more about what opensocial is and is not. Then i realized something - say you add another layer on top of opensocial. something that abstracts the user concept into a foaf document for example. To implement that you'd need to read and write to a person's profile on each network. opensocial makes available exactly that. > Now, google how about extending the api to have openid & foaf built > in? that way every user can be unique regardless of which social > network they are on, and they can access the correct server (via > openid) to add friends from anywhere. a single Foaf Person could have multiple profile links. opensocial just needs to give r/w access to each network. let the abstraction layer link those networks together. now who stores the data for the abstraction layer? each user stores their foaf profile where they want, but there isnt an easy foaf storage place on the net that i know of. right now its nerds keeping hand-editing XML documents on their own web servers. Don --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
