Portable Social
Networks
Alper Çugun

Who are you?

OpenID

Identity is a prerequisite

Now what?

The buddy list is the
centre of the universe.
--Stowe Boyd

Tremendous benefits of
sociality

Open Translation

Microformats

hCard

hCard class=”photo”

hResume

hReview

XFN

Simple protocol

Re-use plain old
technology

No privacy controls

Simple Registration
Extension

Registration information

Persona support

Fine grained privacy
control

Complex protocol

Limited data dictionary

Can’t we do this
already?

Simple implementations

OpenAvatar

http://alper.nl/cgi-bin/
OpenAvatar.py?
openid=http://alper.nl

Next?

Publish more
information on your
OpenID page

Problems

Standard Evolution

OpenID Exposure

Thanks

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