Users are increasingly wanting more and more powerful applications to access their social data - and having that data behind a firewall just won't do in 2008.
Developers and (some) companies are tired of lock-in to just one social network
The DataPortability.org group came to be, major vendors from Google to Facebook to Microsoft all joining a list-serv..But seems to be making little technical progress...and only a very few Semantic Web people involved.
Is the Semantic Web a solution in search of a problem?
Maybe that problem is social data portability...
Just publish all your data on the Web will not work for sensitive social data.
Multiple profiles, trust, security, deleting your data on command...The Social Web needs solutions now.
The two questions are:
The first easy-to-use Semantic Web application that let people manage their social data across these services are going to make a large splash...
Where's the Semantic Web research and addressing these issues?
The two questions are:
The first easy-to-use Semantic Web application that let people manage their social data across these services are going to make a large splash...
Where's the Semantic Web research and addressing these issues?
Allows a much-looser and quicker moving forum than a Working Group for exploratory purposes, allows creation of a Working Group in a year to be sped up!
Can be a group inside the W3C to get diverse groups interested in this communicating
Harmonize and stabilize relevant standards and think through privacy and identity issues with the Semantic Web.
Anyone can join as an Invited Expert and completely open - contact me or Dan Brickley.
If a W3C Member - interested in joining or co-sponsoring group?Starting soon - help us create the charter on a wiki
William Morris. A Dream of John Ball