Plays Well With Others

bnasr

Small pieces. Loosely joined.

Do one thing.

Do it well.

Write programs to work together.

Axioms of Web Architecture

SimplicityModular DesignDecentralization

“One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn't yet been implemented on the web, and fix that.”

Marc Hedlund

finger

pine

Why don’t our social apps work this way?

Control

Speed

Privacy

Clean Experience

Missing: the power of remixable data

Social networking fatigue

brian@brianoberkirch.com

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photo by Lane Hartwell

photo by Lane Hartwell

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How can we make social networks more hackable? Portable? Efficient?

Don’t make me repeat myself.

Profile information

Friend networks

Preferences

Could these sites work together?

We have the technology:

Does it work for users?

Identity

“OpenID is the game changer for social networks, allowing for the portability of the social graph & preferences.”

Simon Willison

Profile Import

Friend Import

hCard + XFN

The Anti-Pattern

rel = “me”

Identity Consolidation

Authentication

Open Protocol for API access delegation

“A valet key for your data”

Modeled on flickr token workflow

Activity Streams

Using WordPress with:

OpenIDXFN Formatted Friend Lists

hCardsOAuth

Open Items

Jabber adding real-time updatesEducation about URL-based identityPrivacy policies & workflowsEase of useCan we share/mine attention data?How to apportion value?What’s the killer app?

What You Can Do

Speed initial usage by reusing identityReuse profile informationMake your profiles portableImport contact listsMake your contact lists portableGate access where neededHighlight privacy issues

Read More

OpenID.netMicroformats.org/wiki/social-network-portabilityOAuth.netDiso-project.org

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Many thanks to:

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