TPAC/2012/Social Web

A session at TPAC2012.

The Social Web. Join us.

http://irc.w3.org/ #social minutes

Themes:

• Social, business, community goals
  • Web and TV entertainment
  • networking, telecomm
  • search and discovery
  • company communications
  • mobile devices
  • linked data
  • academic research

• Features
  • Open, not-siloed
  • Cross-platform interoperable
  • Distributed
  • Accessible

• Requirements
  • Privacy and social
  • Identity
  • Security

What is Social?

• Mass communication.
• Channeled, directed communications.
• Identity-connected, access-controlled.

What are the challenges to making the Web Social?

• Identity, identity management (context)
• Inclusiveness. e.g. sites not accessible to screen-readers
• Open social graph

How can we address the challenges?

• As customers and users demanding standards-compliance from providers. IETF SCIM
• Implement independently, then standardize from the implementations. WRITE CODE.
  • Join: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/
    • Recent summit: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Federated_Social_Web_Summit_2012
  • Join http://indiewebcamp.com, irc://irc.freenode.net/indiewebcamp
    • Participate in the 2013 IndieWebCamp in Portland.
• Identify specific use cases. "high-value". health care,
  

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Additional thoughts on 'social' at W3C -- (subsequent discussion and thoughts)