onesocialweb Breaking Barriers in the Social Networking
By Azam on May 13, 2010
onesocialweb plans to enable free, open, and decentralized social applications on the web. The protocol can be used to turn any XMPP server into a full fledged social network, participating in the onesocialweb federation. The suite of extensions covers all the usual social networking use cases such as user profiles, relationships, activity streams and third party applications. In addition, it provides support for fine grained access control, realtime notification and collaboration.
Onesocialweb is an initiative of Vodafone Group Research and Development to serve the discussions and help taking concrete steps towards an open social web. We by no means claim to have all the answers and are very much open to suggestions and feedback. Anyone is invited to join us in making the open social web a reality.
This project has been built upon the shoulders of other standardization initiatives aiming to open up the web and we have been inspired by the visionaries behind them: activitystrea.ms, portablecontacts, OAuth, OpenSocial, FOAF, XRDS, OpenID and more.
The coders and designers in the team are Laurent Eschenauer, Alard Weisscher, Lorena Alvarez and Diana Cheng.
The firm is working on similar efforts to diaspora* which is more geared more towards individual in control of information for greater privacy. Facebook has come under a lot of attention for privacy issues and less open platform. onesociaweb is tackling a problem by using open standards that will allow for cross platform interactions removing the wall garden approach.
Categories : Media & Ads, TechTags : Alard Weisscher, Diana Cheng, Facebook, Laurent Eschenauer, Lorena Alvarez, onesocialweb, Vodafone, XMPP