On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Don Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I can tell there are a few things that jabber could do to > make decentralized social networking a reality. > 1. It appears I can do some sort of broadcast, if I had a client that > would agregate these into a newsfeed I believe it'd be the same as the > facebook newsfeed.
This appears to me to be nothing more than an simple html+atom module that consumes a personal PubSub endpoint. > 2. It appears I can publish data to a jabber server and have other > people browse it. This could be used for interests/descriptions, etc. > All the stuff social networking does. Now if contacts could be given > different levels of access control then the same account could be used > for a wide variety of people leading to point 3. Yes, some form of OAuth to enable ACL to the various PubSub nodes that represent your information is definitely required. -- --- Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jabber & email) http://code-bear.com/bearlog (weblog) PGP Fingerprint = 9996 719F 973D B11B E111 D770 9331 E822 40B3 CD29
