Open social
to iron out order, etc.
See also Sharing, Open data Semantic web, Chat, Network#Mesh
Movements and initatives
and communities
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OASIS_(organization) - a global nonprofit consortium that works on the development, convergence, and adoption of standards for security, Internet of Things, energy, content technologies, emergency management, and other areas. OASIS was founded under the name "SGML Open" in 1993. It began as a trade association of SGML tool vendors to cooperatively promote the adoption of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) through mainly educational activities, though some amount of technical activity was also pursued including an update of the CALS Table Model specification and specifications for fragment interchange and entity management.
GMPG
2003
OpenSocial
2007
- OpenSocial is the industry's leading and most mature standards-based component model for cloud based social apps.
- Wikipedia:OpenSocial is a public specification that defines a component hosting environment (container) and a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for web-based applications. Initially it was designed for social network applications and was developed by Google along with MySpace and a number of other social networks. In more recent times it has become adopted as a general use runtime environment for allowing untrusted and partially trusted components from third parties to run in an existing web application. The OpenSocial Foundation has also moved to integrate or support numerous other open web technologies. This includes Oauth and OAuth 2.0, Activity Streams, and portable contacts, among others.
DataPortability
November 2007
- Data portability is the ability for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications. The DataPortability Project works to advance this vision by identifying, contextualizing and promoting efforts in the space.
"There are numerous open standards that are considered to advance the vision, such as RDF, RDFa, microformats, APML, FOAF, OAuth, OpenID, OPML, RSS, SIOC, the XHTML Friends Network (XFN), XRI, and XDI."
- http://hueniverse.com/2007/12/reflections-on-the-open-web-community/
- http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/05/twitter-can-be-liberated-heres-how/
- http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/01/data-portability-authentication-authorization.html
- http://web.archive.org/web/20100706024305/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/565 - Data Portability with SIOC and FOAF. May 2008.
- http://web.archive.org/web/20110516032810/http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2008/papers/11.pdf
- http://web.archive.org/web/20090414050007/http://faradaymedia.com/syncstream
- http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/2008/05/09/prototype-for-distributed-decentralised-microblogging-using-semantics/
- http://forrester.typepad.com/groundswell/2008/01/the-open-social.html
- http://mrtopf.de/blog/plone/what-is-the-future-of-content-management-systems-related-to-social-networks/
- http://www.mediamatic.net/26386/en/federating-social-networks-the-technology
- http://www.mediamatic.net/26605/en/federating-social-networks
- http://ralphm.net/publications/berlin_2007/
- http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/facebook-connect-aka-hailstorm-20/
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10111404-2.html
DiSo
December 2007
- DiSo Project (dee • soh) is an initiative to facilitate the creation of open, non-proprietary and interoperable building blocks for the decentralized social web. Silo free living. Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnected, and more distributed. Many of us in the web creation world are embracing and promoting web standards — both client-side and server-side. Microformats, standard APIs, and open-source software are key building blocks of these technologies. This model can be described as having three sides: Information, Identity, and Interaction. Our first target is WordPress, bootstrapping on existing work and building out from there.
- http://wiki.factoryjoe.com/w/page/12283844/DistributedSocialNetwork
- http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/12/06/oauth-10-openid-20-and-up-next-diso/
OStatus / StatusNet / Fediverse
via Identi.ca, 2008
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMicroBlogging - prior system
- OStatus is an open standard for distributed status updates that references a suite of open protocols including Atom, Activity Streams, PubSubHubbub, Salmon, Webfinger, that allows different messaging hubs to route status updates between users in near real-time. - 2010
- Status.net - formerly Laconica, powered Identica
- http://p2pfoundation.net/Social_Publishing_with_Drupal
- http://www.istos.it/blog/social-network/supporting-activity-streams-drupal
- http://status.net/2010/07/21/federated-social-web-summit-wrapup
- http://evan.prodromou.name/files/fedsocweb/fedsocweb.html
- http://www.devcomments.com/OpenSocial-and-OStatus-at246411.htm
august 2010
- http://groups.google.com/group/ostatus-discuss/browse_thread/thread/329e440ed44131f9
- http://www.istos.it/blog/federated-social-web/federated-social-web-and-drupal-notes-drupalcon-bof-meeting
aug 2013; @tantek | previous efforts at directly designing decentralized protocols (without selfdogfood) always result in overly complex protocols that not enough people can implement. e.g. Salmon
- https://e14n.com/evan/note/5JFFMeYMQKiuzPtSYgRoYw - move to pump.io
now part of GNU Social
rssCloud
2009
- http://web.archive.org/web/20120111041741/http://rsscloud.org/ - Dave Winer
- http://web.archive.org/web/20100825193645/http://blog.rsscloud.org/
- http://www.rsscloud.org/
Federated Social Web
2010, 2012
- http://www.w3.org/community/fedsocweb/ - Federated Social Web Community Group
- http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/ - was the Federated Social Web Incubator Group
- http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Protocols
- http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/SWAT0
- http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/SWAT1_use_cases
- http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Aspects_of_a_social_network
- http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Best_Practices_for_the_Open_Social_Web
- http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2013/06/08/bright-fedsocindweb/
- http://www.w3.org/community/fedid/ - Sep 2 2013
CMIS
2010
misc. old
- http://groups.google.com/group/openid
- http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public
- http://groups.google.com/group/diso-project
- http://groups.google.com/group/oauth
- http://groups.google.com/group/activity-streams/
- http://groups.google.com/group/ostatus-discuss
- http://groups.google.com/group/federated-social-web
- http://groups.google.com/group/open-web-discuss
- http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal
- http://groups.drupal.org/activity
- http://groups.drupal.org/semantic-web
onesocialweb
2011?
pump.io
2012, succeeds OStatus / StatusNet
- http://pump.io/ - successor to StatusNet
- http://www.skilledtests.com/wiki/Pump.io
- http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/StatusNet-transforms-into-Node-js-driven-pump-io-1771646.html
- http://opensource.com/life/13/7/pump-io
a general-purpose Activity Streams engine. It diverges from OStatus in a few other respects, of course, such as sending activity messages as JSON rather than as Atom, and by defining a simple REST inbox API instead of using PubSubHubbub and Salmon to push messages to other servers. Pump.io also uses a new database abstraction layer called Databank, which has drivers for a variety of NoSQL databases, but supports real relational databases, too. StatusNet, in contrast, was bound closely to MySQL. But, in the end, the important thing is the feature set; a pump.io instance can generate a microblogging feed, an image stream, or essentially any other type of feed. Activity Streams defines actions (which are called "verbs") that handle common social networking interaction; pump.io merely sends and receives them.
App.net
2012
- http://app.net - $ish ecosystem
- http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2013/03/31/1/a-response-to-replies-i-received-on-my-post-an-open-challenge-to-app-net
- http://blog.app.net/2013/08/07/response-to-brennan-novak-part-ii/
Tent
2012
- Tent - the protocol for decentralized communication. Tent uses HTTPS and JSON to transport posts between servers and apps.
- Tent - use data and posts across your apps and send and receive posts from friends. Right now, most people use Tent to share short 256 character long status posts with friends. Many independent developers are building other apps that use the Tent protocol.
- https://cupcake.io - service
#indieweb
indieauth, activitystrea.ms, RSSB, etc.
- http://indiewebcamp.com/IndieMark - like fedsocwebs SWAT* benchmarks
- http://indiewebify.me/
- http://werd.io/entry/51dca7e2bed7de945debf707/the-indieweb-as-a-minimum-viable-social-web-ecosystem
- http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/indie-web/
- http://tantek.com/2013/113/b1/first-federated-indieweb-comment-thread
- http://bret.io/2013/06/28/indiewebcamp-2013-roundup/
- ActivityPush - A lightweight method for URI addressable resources to be automatically notified about remote (off-site) activites on them. A crypto-free alternative to the Salmon Protocol for public activites.
Projects
- http://indiewebcamp.com/p3k
- http://indiewebcamp.com/Falcon
- http://tommorris.org/tag/ferocity
- http://idno.co/
- https://github.com/converspace/converspace
- http://indiewebcamp.com/Homesteading
- https://github.com/mimecuvalo/helloworld
- https://github.com/socialigniter/socialigniter
- http://indiewebcamp.com/Taproot
Solid
- https://github.com/solid/solid - Solid (derived from "social linked data") is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized Web applications based on Linked Data principles. Solid is modular and extensible. It relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards and protocols. [4]
ActivityPub
- w3.org: ActivityPub - ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content. [5]
- lwn.net: Federation in social networks
- https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube - Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Angular.
fediverse
GNU Social, Hubzilla, PostActiv, Friendica, Mastodon or Pleroma, etc.
- https://the-federation.info - diaspora
IPFS
- https://beyermatthias.de/blog/2017/10/31/blueprint-of-a-distributed-social-network-on-ipfs---and-its-problems/
- https://beyermatthias.de/blog/2018/02/25/blueprint-of-a-distributed-social-network-on-ipfs---and-its-problems-2/ [7]
Semantic
See also Semantic web
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14307792/what-is-the-relationship-between-rdf-rdfa-microformats-and-microdata
- http://manu.sporny.org/2011/uber-comparison-rdfa-md-uf/
- https://gist.github.com/veganstraightedge/6179849
- http://tantek.com/presentations/2004etech/realworldsemanticspres.html
- http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/9/15/25324/5735
Microformats
2003
- microformats are extensions to HTML for marking up people, organizations, events, locations, blog posts, products, reviews, resumes, recipes etc. Sites use microformats to publish a standard API that is consumed and used by search engines, browsers, and other tools.
- hAtom – for marking up Atom feeds from within standard HTML
- hCalendar – for events
- hCard – for contact information; includes:
- adr – for postal addresses
- geo – for geographical coordinates (latitude, longitude)
- hMedia - for audio/video content
- hNews - for news content
- hProduct – for products
- hRecipe - for recipes and foodstuffs.
- hResume – for resumes or CVs
- hReview – for reviews
- rel-directory – for distributed directory creation and inclusion
- rel-enclosure – for multimedia attachments to web pages
- rel-license – specification of copyright license
- rel-nofollow, an attempt to discourage third-party content spam (e.g. spam in blogs)
- rel-tag – for decentralized tagging (Folksonomy)
- xFolk – for tagged links
- XHTML Friends Network (XFN) – for social relationships
- XOXO – for lists and outlines
- http://indiewebcamp.com/in-reply-to - rel-in-reply-to
RDFa
2004
See open data#rdfa
Sitemaps
2005
- Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.
OpenSearch
2005
Microdata
2009
Open Graph Protocol
2010
Schema.org
2011
- Schema.org provides a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google, Yahoo! and Yandex rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages.
- http://schema.org/docs/full.html
- http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas
- http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/details/vocabulary_schema.html
Twitter Cards
2012
- Twitter Cards make it possible for you to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your content. Simply add a few lines of HTML to your webpages, and users who Tweet links to your content will have a "card" added to the Tweet that’s visible to all of their followers.
Web Credits
Authentication
See also Communication#Identity
OpenID
2005
- OpenID is an open standard that allows users to be authenticated by certain co-operating sites (known as Relying Parties or RP) using a third party service, eliminating the need for webmasters to provide their own ad hoc systems and allowing users to consolidate their digital identities.
- http://wiki.openid.net/w/page/12995226/Run-your-own-identity-server
- https://drupal.org/project/openid_provider
- http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse571-07/ftp/websso/
- http://tantek.com/2011/047/t1/indiewebcamp-with-openid-seriously-best-web-id
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1116743/where-can-i-find-a-list-of-openid-provider-urls
- http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31021/what-openid-providers-should-we-feature-on-the-login-page
OAuth
OAuth - 2006-2010, OAuth 2 - 2012
- http://oauth.net/ - access granting protocol, silod pseudo-auth for identity and api access
OAuth began in November 2006 when Blaine Cook was developing the Twitter OpenID implementation. Meanwhile, Ma.gnolia needed a solution to allow its members with OpenIDs to authorize Dashboard Widgets to access their service. Cook, Chris Messina and Larry Halff from Ma.gnolia met with David Recordon to discuss using OpenID with the Twitter and Ma.gnolia APIs to delegate authentication. They concluded that there were no open standards for API access delegation.
The OAuth discussion group was created in April 2007, for the small group of implementers to write the draft proposal for an open protocol. DeWitt Clinton from Google learned of the OAuth project, and expressed his interest in supporting the effort. In July 2007 the team drafted an initial specification. Eran Hammer joined and coordinated the many OAuth contributions, creating a more formal specification. On October 3, 2007, the OAuth Core 1.0 final draft was released.
Because OAuth 2.0 is more like a framework rather than a defined protocol, any OAuth 2.0 implementation is unlikely to naturally be interoperable with any other OAuth 2.0 implementation. Further deployment profiling and specification is required for any interoperability.
- http://web.archive.org/web/20110305071413/http://blog.behindlogic.com/2007/12/oauth-is-key-to-future-longings-of.html
- http://homakov.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/oauth1-oauth2-oauth.html
- http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell/
OpenID Connect
2010
- http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2010/01/04/openid-connect/
- https://github.com/rohe/pyoidc
- OpenID Connect - Posted Jun 3, 2010
- http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2010/05/16/combing-openid-and-oauth-with-openid-connect
- http://nat.sakimura.org/2012/01/20/openid-connect-nutshell/
- http://nat.sakimura.org/2013/07/28/write-openid-connect-server-in-three-simple-steps/
- http://developer.studivz.net/wiki/index.php/OpenID_Connect
- http://osis.idcommons.net/wiki/Main_Page
- http://nat.sakimura.org/2013/07/28/write-openid-connect-server-in-three-simple-steps/
- http://nimbusds.com/blog/our-openid-connect-server/
- https://npmjs.org/package/openid-connect
- https://github.com/mitreid-connect/
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID_Connect
- https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-OpenIDConnect
WebID
2011
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(ontology)#WebID_Protocol
- http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID - was 'FOAF+SSL'
- http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/User_Stories - active-ish
- http://buddypress.org/support/topic/webid-versus-openid-connect/
- http://semanticweb.com/time-for-another-look-at-webid_b21579
- http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/08/05/webid-related.respec.html
- http://news.softpedia.com/news/W3C-Launches-WebID-Development-Group-for-Browser-Authentication-178496.shtml
- http://bblfish.net/tmp/2011/04/26/
- http://bblfish.net/blog/2011/05/25/
- http://yorkporc.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/myopenid-oauth-persona-webid-bridge/
BrowserID / Persona
2011
- Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in - Jul 14, 2011
- MDN: Identity Provider Overview
- BrowserID - This is the production BrowserID specification, working live at https://login.persona.org.
- https://login.persona.org
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en/BrowserID/Quick_Setup
- Persona - repository contains the core Mozilla Persona services.
- EyeDee.Me - EyeDee.Me is an example Indentity Provider for the BrowserID protocol. This protocol is used by Mozilla Persona to authenticate users across the web. EyeDee.Me styles itself like an email provider, but does not actually handle any email. Rather, it exists solely as an example for how services, such as email providers, can provide first-class support for BrowserID.
- BigTent - A ProxyIdP service for bridging major IdPs who lack support for the BrowserID protocol.
- checkmyidp.org - A Mozilla Persona Identity Provider (IdP) Linter
- 123done - your tasks - simplified. test login.
- https://drupal.org/project/persona
- https://drupal.org/project/browserid_idp
- DrupalCon Prague 2013: Mozilla Persona: The Web's Decentralised Identity API - Jonathan Brown (Bluedroplet), Dan Callahan (Mozilla)
- Hypersona - Mozilla Persona's viability in Hyperboria
- http://upon2020.com/blog/2014/02/on-mozillas-persona-post-mortem/
- http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-persona-to-community-ownership [11]
IndieAuth
2011
- IndieAuth is a way to use your own domain name to sign in to websites. It's like OpenID, but simpler! It works by linking your website to one or more authentication providers such as Twitter or Google, then entering your domain name in the login form on websites that support IndieAuth.
- http://indiewebcamp.com/IndieAuth - IndieAuth is an implementation of Web sign-in/RelMeAuth with a REST API on top.
- https://github.com/fmarier/indieauth-personaidp-spec
- http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2013/09/15/1/indieauth-now-supports-openid-delegation
url, not uri. costs a domain, digital divide..
SQRL
- GRC: SQRL - Secure (QR) Login. Proposing a comprehensive, easy-to-use, high security replacement for usernames, passwords, reminders, one-time-code authenticators and everything else.
WebAuth
- WebAuth - A Plugin Replacement for HTTPS CCA
- BitShares Login - has since pivoted? [14]
U2F
- Universal 2nd Factor - open ecosystem documents, an initiative started by Google. The intent is to enable Internet users to carry a non-phishable strong 2 factor device which the user can register at any supporting site to get strong authentication security. The goal is to get many internet services accepting these devices as an option for 2nd Factor, get the key client platforms (browsers, OSes) to have built in support for these open-protocol devices and a large number of vendors making protocol compliant devices.
gpgAuth
- gpgAuth is an authentication mechanism which uses Public/Private (cryptographic) keys (such as GnuPG, PGP) to authenticate users to a web-page or service. The process works by the two-way exchange of Encrypted/Signed tokens between a user and the service. gpgAuth is a generic authentication protocol that is not specific to any technology, platform or provider type. Being a versitile authentication mechansim, there are many hardware/software options available - in the projects section you will find information regarding various gpgAuth client and server implementations or tools.
Login with SSH
- Login with SSH - a simple experiment to authenticate web sessions with SSH. Doing so gives you a fully decentralized, passwordless authentication for free. A custom SSH server listens for connections. Instead of providing a shell or any other service, it only validates the public key you offer. Then, a callback is made to a web application with a payload containing the validated public key along with the login token used. In practise, you would have first hit a "login with SSH button" on the web app. It would have generated a session that resolves into a valid one with a callback handing the proper key / token combination.[15]
Discovery
- The Discovery Protocol Stack, Redux - Nov 24th 2009
XRD
XRD: Extensible Resource Descriptor XRDS: Extensible Resource Descriptor Sequence
The XML format used by XRDS was originally developed in 2004 by the OASIS XRI (extensible resource identifier) Technical Committee as the resolution format for XRIs. The acronym XRDS was coined during subsequent discussions between XRI TC members and OpenID developers at first Internet Identity Workshop held in Berkeley, CA in October 2005. The protocol for discovering an XRDS document from a URL was formalized as the Yadis specification published by Yadis.org in March 2006. Yadis became the service discovery format for OpenID 1.1.
A common discovery service for both URLs and XRIs proved so useful that in November 2007 the XRI Resolution 2.0 specification formally added the URL-based method of XRDS discovery (Section 6). This format and discovery protocol subsequently became part of OpenID Authentication 2.0. In early 2008, work on OAuth discovery by Eran Hammer-Lahav led to the development of XRDS Simple, a profile of XRDS that restricts it to the most basic elements and introduces some extensions to support OAuth discovery and other protocols that use specific HTTP methods. In late 2008, XRDS Simple has been cancelled and merged back into the main XRDS specification resulting in the upcoming XRD 1.0 format.
- http://web.archive.org/web/20090312073505/http://xrds-simple.net/core/1.0/
- http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/xrd/v1.0/os/xrd-1.0-os.html
- https://wiki.oasis-open.org/xri/XrdOne/SpecHome
.well-known
- RFC5785: Defining Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) - defines a path prefix for "well-known locations", "/.well-known/", in selected Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes.
- RFC 5785: Defining Well-Known URIs - April 6th 2010
older;
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-discovery-06 - LRDD: Link-based Resource Descriptor Discovery
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-hostmeta-17 - Web Host Metadata
newer;
- Simple Web Discovery (SWD) defines an HTTPS GET based mechanism to discover the location of a given type of service for a given principal starting only with a domain name.
Web Linking
- RFC5899: Web Linking - specifies relation types for Web links, and defines a registry for them. It also defines the use of such links in HTTP headers with the Link header field.
WebFinger
- WebFinger is a .well-known based protocol that aims to provide information about people by their E-mail addresses. It moves the old UNIX Finger protocol to the web by relying on HTTP only. It provides meta data about the user behind the E-mail address, for example public encryption keys and OpenIDs. The WebFinger protocol is used by the federated social networks StatusNet and Diaspora to discover users on federated nodes and pods as well as the remotestorage protocol used by e.g. ownCloud.
- WebFist uses DKIM-signed email to prove that you, the user, want to participate in WebFinger, regardless of what your provider says. By sending a single email you can delegate your WebFinger profile to your own website host or anything that can serve the service document over HTTP (e.g., Google Drive). This is ridiculously easy for users. You can even set up WebFist via a mailto link on a webpage. To accomplish decentralization, WebFist servers take delegation emails, encrypt them into blobs, and distribute the blobs safely across a pool of peer servers. These servers synchronize with a "fist bump", transferring just encrypted blobs without secret keys. This makes it near impossible to enumerate every email address in WebFist.
JSON Resource Descriptor
- JSON Resource Descriptor (JRD) is a simple JSON object that describes a "resource" on the Internet, where a "resource" is any entity on the Internet that is identified via a URI or IRI. For example, a person's account URI (e.g., acct:bob@example.com) is a resource. So are all web URIs (e.g., http://www.packetizer.com/). The JSON Resource Descriptor, originally introduced in RFC 6415 and based on the Extensible Resource Descriptor (XRD) format, was adopted for use in the WebFinger protocol, though its use is not restricted to WebFinger or RFC 6415.
- JRD, the Other Resource Descriptor - May 24th 2010
- RFC6415: Web Host Metadata
Also used in OpenID Connect.
Web Intents
- Web Intents is a framework for client-side service discovery and inter-application communication. Services register their intention to be able to handle an action on the user's behalf. Applications request to start an Action of a certain verb (share, edit, view, pick etc.) and the system will find the appropriate Services for the user to use based on the user's preference. Web Intents puts the user in control of service integrations and makes the developer's life simple.
UserAddress
- UserAddress is a search engine that can discover users as long as they are discoverable through one of the following languages: xrd (e.g. Webfinger including StatusNet, Google+, Friendica, Diaspora), rdf (e.g. Foaf), html (e.g. Tantek, Melvin), turtle (e.g. Facebook), Twitter-flavoured json (Twitter), Planned: xmpp-vcard (e.g. BuddyCloud)
Profile
vcard
hcard
- hCard is a microformat that allows a vCard to be embedded inside an HTML page. It makes use of CSS class names to identify each vCard property. Normal HTML markup and CSS styling can be used alongside the hCard class names without affecting the webpage's ability to be parsed by a hCard parser.
avatar
- http://pavatar.com/ - dead
attention
- http://www.apml.areyoupayingattention.com/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/05/were_playing_your_song_persona.shtml
Feeds / Activity
- Rss20AndAtom10Compared - Atom Wiki - People who generate syndication feeds have a choice of feed formats. As of mid-2005, the two most likely candidates will be RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0. The purpose of this page is to summarize, as clearly and simply as possible, the differences between the RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 syndication languages.
RSS
- RSS Autodiscovery - a technique that makes it possible for browsers and other software to automatically find a site's RSS feed, whether it's in RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0 format. Supported by Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and other browsers, autodiscovery has become the best way to inform users that a web site offers a syndication feed. When a browser loads a page and discovers that a feed is available, Firefox and Internet Explorer display the common feed icon in the address bar.
Atom / APP
- http://atompub.org/
- http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/rfc5023.html - The Atom Publishing Protocol
- http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atompub/charter/
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T04fKsD56LU
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4685#page-1 - Atom Threading Extensions
- http://bblfish.net/work/atom-owl/2006-06-06/AtomOwl.html
Clients
- Newsboat, an RSS reader - a fork of Newsbeuter, an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. The only difference is that Newsboat is actively maintained while Newsbeuter isn't.
- Feeder - Android RSS feed reader
Web aggregation
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software) - old skool
- Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.
- https://code.google.com/p/openbotlist/ - open source suite of software applications for social bookmarking and collecting online news content for use on the web. Multiple web front-ends exist based on Django (through Google AppEngine), Rails, and J2EE. Users and remote agents are allowed to submit interesting articles. There are additional remote agent libraries for back-end text mining operations. The system is broken up by the back-end specification and front-end specification.
- PubwichFork - An open-source PHP web application that allows you to aggregate published data from multiple websites and social services into a single HTML page.
- SemanticScuttle is a social bookmarking tool experimenting with features like structured tags and collaborative tag descriptions.
- Bookie - Python based delicious.com replacement
- Shaarli is a minimalist delicious clone you can install on your own website. It is designed to be personal (single-user), fast and handy.
- River2 is a River of News feed reader with lots of features.
- https://github.com/pmarinov/rrss - R is a reader of RSS feeds (w/GDrive for storage)
- https://github.com/newspipe/newspipe - Newspipe is a web-based news aggregator and reader.
- https://github.com/truerss/truerss - convenient web rss-reader
- Miniflux - Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader.
- https://github.com/NicolasLM/atoma - Atom and RSS feed parser for Python 3
Services
- FreshRSS - a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator such as Leed or Kriss Feed.
- http://readable.cc/ - nicely minimal
- https://github.com/getstream/winds - Open source & beautiful RSS reader built using React/Redux/Sails/Node 7 and Stream (getstream.io). Showcases personalized feeds (using machine learning similar to Facebook, Flipboard, Etsy, and Quora - powered by the getstream.io API).
Library
OPML
2001
- OPML an XML-based format that allows exchange of outline-structured information between applications running on different operating systems and environments.
- OPML Editor is an outliner, an editor that works with chunks of text that slide around on rails. You can control the level of detail you look at, and reorganize according to structure. It's great for writing blog posts, technical notes, program code, legal briefs, product plans, to-do lists, entire websites, anything where ideas need organization.
Activity Streams
2009
- http://microformats.org/wiki/activity-streams
- http://indiewebcamp.com/ActivityStreams
- http://martin.atkins.me.uk/activity-streams/
- pump.io - Social server with an ActivityStreams API
- http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/05/time-for-updated-activity-streams.html
- http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/06/activity-streams-20-updates.html
- http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/06/more-link-relations-part-two.html
- http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/07/more-on-activity-streams-20.html
- http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/07/activity-streams-20-whats-and-whys.html
- http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/08/social_8.html
- http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/08/now-that-you-mention-it.html
- http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/08/whats-hubbub.html
- http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/08/more-on-link-and-webmention.html
- http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/08/webfinger-poor-tortured-soul.html
- http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/08/more-link-relations.html
- http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/09/actions-in-activity-streams-20.html
- https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-activitystreams-04 - JSON Activity Streams 2.0
JSON Feed
2017
Pub/sub
XMPP PubSub
2002
- http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/07/oscon-day-1-beyond-rest-buildi.html
- http://www.isode.com/whitepapers/xmpp-pubsub.html
- http://blog.fanout.io/2013/10/09/publishing-json-over-xmpp/ [18]
WebSub
2008
- https://indieweb.org/WebSub - previously known as PubSubHubbub or PuSH, and briefly PubSub, is a notification-based protocol for web publishing and subscribing to streams and legacy feed files in real time. Currently there are no known indieweb sites that subscribe to anything via WebSub, but there are a few separate-UI indie-readers that use WebSub to subscribe to h-feed streams. WebSub is developed in the W3C Social Web Working Group.
- PubSubHubbub (PuSH) - A simple, open, server-to-server webhook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol for any web accessible resources.
- Notes / PubSubHubbub - Oct 3rd 2010
trsst
2013
- Trsst: a secure and distributed blog platform for the open web
- Make a Twitter out of RSS Dave Winer, March 28, 2013.
- Wired: Man Crosses Twitter and Google Reader to Create Open Source Love Child
http-subscriptions
via webhooks
App.net
Linkbacks
Ping
1999
Trackback
2002
Semantic Trackback
Pingback
2002
Semantic Pingback
- http://www.w3.org/wiki/Pingback
- http://aksw.org/Projects/SemanticPingback.html
- http://pingback.aksw.org/
- http://www.w3.org/wiki/Pingback
WebMention
2012
- http://webmention.org/ - A modern alternative to Pingback.
- http://webmention.io/ is an open-source project and hosted service for receiving webmentions and pingbacks on behalf of your indieweb site.
Comments
CommentAPI
Salmon
- Salmon Protocol is a message exchange protocol running over HTTP designed to decentralize commentary and annotations made against newsfeed articles such as blog posts. It allows a single discussion thread to be established between the article's origin and any feed reader or "aggregator" which is subscribing to the content. Put simply, that if an article appeared on 3 sites A (the source), B and C (the aggregates), that members of all 3 sites could see and contribute to a single thread of conversation regardless of site they were viewing from.
WebMention
Other
Interaction
XML-RPC
Atom Publishing Protocol
OExchange
- OExchange is an open protocol for sharing any URL with any service on the web.
Web Intents
- Web Intents is a framework for client-side service discovery and inter-application communication. Services register their intention to be able to handle an action on the user's behalf. Applications request to start an Action of a certain verb (share, edit, view, pick etc.) and the system will find the appropriate Services for the user to use based on the user's preference.
Ballista
Graph
FOAF
2000
FOAF (from "friend of a friend") is an RDF based schema to describe persons and their social network in a semantic way. FOAF could get used within many wikis for annotating user pages, or describing articles about people.
See Open web#WebID
XFN
2006
Portable Contacts
2008
The protocol is a combination of OAuth, XRDS-Simple and a wire-format based on vCard harmonized with schema from OpenSocial.
Other
Storage
Networks
See also Comms, Network#Projects
theory and practice
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtXMsLaocacrdDAwTzdPeGdPNlhZSHFMelg0MnQ2N2c#gid=0
- http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Platforms
GNUnet
2001
- GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. Anonymity is provided by making messages originating from a peer indistinguishable from messages that the peer is routing. All peers act as routers and use link-encrypted connections with stable bandwidth utilization to communicate with each other. GNUnet uses a simple, excess-based economic model to allocate resources. Peers in GNUnet monitor each others behavior with respect to resource usage; peers that contribute to the network are rewarded with better service. GNUnet is part of the GNU project. GNUnet can be downloaded from GNU and the GNU mirrors.
Kune
2007
xOperator
2007
- xOperator - A semantic agent for xmpp / jabber network which finds and shares content about resources (using RDF/SPARQL) for you and your jabber friends.
Sneer
2008
- Sneer is a free and open source sovereign computing platform. It runs on your Windows, Mac or Linux machine (like Skype or Firefox) using the Java VM. It enables you to create your personal cluster by sharing hardware resources (CPU, disk space, network bandwidth) with your friends, host your own social network, information and media, create sovereign applications and share them with others, download and run sovereign applications created by others.
Semantic Microblogging
2008
OpenLink Data Spaces
2009
Diaspora
2010
GNU Social
2010. uses older OStatus
- http://programmingisterrible.com/post/39438834308/distributed-social-network
- http://we-need-a-free-and-open-social-network.wikispaces.com/Federated+Social+Network+Applications
- https://git.gnu.io/h2p/Qvitter - UI for GNU social
Foafpress
2010
- Foafpress - An open-source PHP web application and presentation engine that publishes profiles and web pages based on RDF data stored in files. It allows you to aggregate and publish data from multiple web sources via Linked Data.
Jappix
2010
- https://jappix.com/ - xmpp based
buddycloud
2010
Mobile Social Semantic Web
2010
Friendica
2011
DSSN
2012
Nightweb
2012
- Nightweb is an app for Android devices and PCs that connects you to an anonymous, peer-to-peer social network. It is written in Clojure and uses I2P and BitTorrent on the backend.
Vole
2013
- Vole is a web-based social network that you use in your browser, without a central server. It's built on the power of Bittorrent, Go and Ember.js.
SOCML
- http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/SOCML_proposal
- http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/SOCML_Standard
- http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/SOCML_Technical
Sockethub
- Sockethub is a polyglot (speaking many different protocols and APIs) messaging service for social and other interactive messaging applications. It assists web app developers by providing server-independent, server-side functionality - which gives the application greater autonomy. It can be used as a tool for many different types of applications, large and small.
Di.me
IRC Paradigm
2013
Aether
2013
Syme
2013
Twister
2013
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6990354
- http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/twister/ [26]
Snake.il
Charme
- Charme - A decentralized social network with end-to-end encryption for messaging, private posts and private profile data. Posts can contain semantic information, so it is possible to search for all friends driving from A to B for example. This is a preview version. It is not secure yet!!! So do not wonder if you find some crypto mistakes!
Movim
Scuttlebutt
Humhub
Mastodon
- https://joinmastodon.org/
- https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon - A GNU Social-compatible microblogging server
- YouTube: What is the Mastodon Social Network?
Friendica
- friendica - software to create a distributed social network. It is part of the federation of servers that are running with Friendica, Diaspora and Hubzilla which are compatible to each other. It is developed by many different people from all over the world in their spare time. There is no corporation or any foundation behind Friendica. Friendica was created by Mike Macgirvin who left the project to create Hubzilla which has a different focus than Friendica. Friendica is a communication hub that can not only talk to other Friendica servers but also natively to servers that are using the Diaspora protocol (Diaspora and Hubzilla) and the OStatus protocol that is used by GNU Social. Additionally you can use accounts of third party networks to read and post content with the use of Friendica.
Friendica currently supports bidirectionally (reading and posting) the following networks:
- App.net
- GNU Social
- Mail (via IMAP and SMTP)
Also you can post content to these networks:
- Blogger
- Buffer (Facebook, Google+ Pages, LinkedIn, Twitter)
- Dreamwidth
- Insanejournal
- Libertree
- Livejournal
- Tumblr
- WordPress
Hubzilla
- Hubzilla Development - hubzilla@project.hubzilla.org - a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology.
Pleroma
- Pleroma - a federated social networking platform, compatible with GNU social and other OStatus implementations. It is free software licensed under the AGPLv3. It actually consists of two components: a backend, named simply Pleroma, and a user-facing frontend, named Pleroma-FE.
to sort
oEmbed
Hyperlocal
other
Pipedream
older ideas/ramblings
- http://web.archive.org/web/20110120002447/
- http://www.typewith.me/the-web-we-need - via anon activism
Social news idea
While I'm here (sending feedback for the new digg), my wishlist would be for;
- Reddit style voting meets Slashdot comment categories, with social bookmark tagging for both users and groups/communities. *
Between upvoting and commenting, there are other types of actions that can be performed on items, like flagging as a favourite.
To add a better social bookmarking management system (better than Reddit search!), if a user could either;
- Click to Digg - (Click to thumbs-down/whatever is optional for communities, or like Hacker News) - Click to Favourite to own bookmark list -- And Tag, like del.icio.us, pinboard.in - Also, click to "Notice", as in not like the user "Diggs" or "Likes" the content of the article, and not that they want to bother saving it to Favourites, but a touch in the sence of a the *nix command, or a 'poke' to the issue embodies in the linked to page.
So, on the page, in ASCII;
This is the title of the link! 324 diggs/94 undiggs (small url) 863 noticed [++] [*] [~] [Tag:] [img thumb/whatever]
This is the title of another link! 243 diggs/213 undiggs (small url) 546 noticed [++] [*] [~] [Tag:] [img thumb/whatever]
(the buttons representing 'digg', 'favourite/save', 'notice' and 'tag:'
the tag textarea expands on clickingm like the stackexchange search box, and does auto-complete for a users tags, with suggestions from the global tags, like del.icio.us. personal taxonomy can be cached locally for users.)
ALSO - reposts in different communities can tie back to a global site dashboard listing related taxonomies, from groups and users who favourite the link publically
So
- Bottom up social tagging link topic clustering
- Some communities have taxonomies moderated
- Moderated taxonomies could be linked with Linked Data, DPpedia, etc.
- So some serious bits of the site, some open and silly bits
- Bits and bobs displayed in a timeline format (D3.js?), arrows between concepts in a postcyberpunk style semantic news and search display
- Paid access for high-volume API calls
tag/category/channel ?
[social] bookmarks as service
Group types
from old wiki
Groups for collaboration on and sharing of conversation, news, code, media, services, etc.
- Active = Groups as in membership.
- Who can 'join'?
- Open = Cost of entry is participation.
- Closed = Some form of new-member rules.
- What output can people see?
- Public = Open process, easily forkable.
- Private = Group or subgroup curates output, hidden process. Trust?
- Who can 'join'?
- Passive = Groups as in topics of interest.
- Web of semantically related topics and ideas.
- Mining and 'routing' of relevant related content
Individual hubs could federate the service they wished (widgets, social aggregation, files, etc) in a manner that could be open or hidden. Tunnelled inter-darknet connections between anonymised users and services.
Process consensus-holders
Philosophy
- interoperable oss platform(s)
- activity stream, accessible for aggregation
- easy filterable by others
- from easy oembed style referencing using entry points with either html5 microformats or semantic apis
- following/friend activity aggregation.
- federated commenting
- provides with one public (https) and one private (hidden service)
- categories and tags the same
- category tags out-of-bound but in-band referable
- linked to evolving social fuzzy web ontology? npl for suggestions
- other services use same ontology for wikis and social bookmarking
- linked to evolving social fuzzy web ontology? npl for suggestions
- category tags out-of-bound but in-band referable
- easy link friends with post categories and