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Data ManagementUpdate on SREG, AX, OAuth, WRAP, Portable Contacts, and Activity Streams

OpenID UX Summit, Chicago

Joseph SmarrFeb 25, 2010

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Context

Building blocks of an open, distributed social web

• Core Identity Plumbing

• OpenID, OAuth, WRAP, webfinger, XRD, LRDD, host-meta

• Profiles & Social Graph

• SREG, AX, Portable Contacts

• Content Sharing & Aggregation

• RSS, ATOM, Activity Streams, MediaRSS, PubSubHubbub, Salmon

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So where are we at?

• Lots more useful attributes being shared

• Validated e-mail addresses, OAuth tokens, profile photos, etc.

• Not much “lifecycle management”

• Updated data being sent to RPs

• Profile / graph data flowing back from RPs

• Foundations of a “virtuous cycle of social discovery”

• Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, AOL

• Not (yet) much evidence of how well it’s working, but it’s still early days

• Some overlap in technologies, but mainly complementary building blocks

• Still evolving rapidly, but safe to play now, so come on in!

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Discussion / Questions