Social Beans

Building Blocks of the Social Web

Building Blocks of the Social Web

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Building Blocks of the Social Web

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Building Blocks of the Social Web

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• Tagging

Building Blocks of the Social Web

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• Sharing & Bookmarking

Building Blocks of the Social Web

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Building Blocks of the Social Web

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• Sharing & Bookmarking

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• and so on…

• Common elements in all social applications such as:

– forums,

– wikis,

– blogs

– etc

These are…

• Common elements in all social applications such as:

– forums,

– wikis,

– blogs

– etc

• Common Denominators of the Social Web

These are…

Other Common Elements include:

• Users

Other Common Elements include:

• Users

• Profiles

Other Common Elements include:

• Users

• Profiles

• Avatars

Other Common Elements include:

• Users

• Profiles

• Avatars

• Roles

Other Common Elements include:

• Users

• Profiles

• Avatars

• Roles

• Newsfeed

Why don’t we outline those elements by a syntax specific to the social web?

Why don’t we outline those elements by a syntax specific to the social web?

Why do we keep reinventing the wheel, writing social applications with very low level

languages such as HTML and PHP

It’s like creating a web page with Assembly Code!

Why don’t we outline those elements by a syntax specific to the social web?

Why do we keep reinventing the wheel, writing social applications with very low level

languages such as HTML and PHP

Why don’t we outline those elements by a syntax specific to the social web?

Why do we keep reinventing the wheel, writing social applications with very low level

languages such as HTML and PHP

It’s like creating a web page with Assembly Code!

That’s why we’ve created Social BeansSkeleton Portability across Social Media Publishing Platforms

That’s why we’ve created Social BeansSkeleton Portability across Social Media Publishing Platforms

<socialbean version=“0.1”><settings>

<defaultmodule>videos</defaultmodule><template type=“universal”>summer</template>

</settings><module type=“video” id=“videos”>

<subscription enabled=“false” /><sort type=“date” /><moderation>

<read type=“anyone” /><write type=“custom” moderation=“false”>

<role id=“video_moderator”></write><write type=“member” moderation=“true” />

</moderation><activityrank>

<per-write point=“5” /></activityrank><features>

<allow-youtube /><allow-metacafe /><allow-external /><allow-dailymotion type=“false” /></features><title><![CDATA[Vidyoooz!]]></title><blocks>

<vote weight=“100” /><extrablock weight=“250” id=“rulez”><![CDATA[Feel free to add yoour videos<br

/>Irrelevant content will be deleted and irresponsible members will be banned. Please do your best!]]></extrablock></blocks>

</module><module type=“photo” id=“photos”>

……

</module></socialbean>

Social Beans 0.1 is ready

• It’s live on http://socialbeans.org

• Plugins available for

– MediaWiki

– And Wordpress