Federated Social Web
Currently most online communities (or social networks) uses social networking platforms which don't provide any interoperability with other online communities. Federated Social Web initiative works on technologies to help us bridge those gaps and provide smooth experience in participating in many online communities'. As for today some open source platforms start providing features for such networking, to mention few:
- Elgg
- Drupal
- BuddyPress and so on...
Bridging Protocols
"Despite the apparent dichotomy between the xmpp and OStatus, and despite the fact that only a subset of typical social application functionality was being described by these proposals, some valuable progress was made on this topic over the last two years. But in the end, it turned out to be quite hard to agree upfront on what federation protocol each server should implement. Choosing this protocol and agreeing on a choice with all parties involved is hard, and this is not a top-down organization; each application has its own development roadmap which often understandably takes priority over the more idealistic and long-term federation efforts."
"The polyglot approach to the federated social web recognizes xmpp, all the layers of the OStatus stack, but also email, and web linking as protocols ("languages") that can at one point or another help one application understand the information that another application (on another server) is exposing." - Michel De Jong, User Address
Other Potential Federated Services
Other services can potentially be federated. Modify an open centralized version of the web software to support federation protocols
- Federated Search Federated Blog Federated Wiki Federated Apache Wave Federated Etherpad
- Federated SMS and Federated Telephony/VoIP,
- Federated Web Portal
- Federated Classifieds, like Craigslist
- Federated Video Sharing Federated Music Sharing Federated Audio Wiki
Real-Life Federated Services
Already existing or proposed real life federation can be the supporting infrastructure to federated web services.
- Federated Credentialing Federated Lobbying Federated Funding
Directory
Potential P2P Foundation Federation Partners
More Information
- The federated social web is a wiki for people working on federated social web software and protocols. It was originally made to support the Federated Social Web Summit 2010 but has been expanded to support the summit group as well as future collaborators.
- Federated Social Web Projects, http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Software
- List of Protocols, XMPP OStatus UserAddress