A few recent days in the news…

Lots of “open social web” building blocks…

Portable Contacts: The missing piece Effort underway to standardize: contact schema discovery / auth common operations Focused on ease & speed of adoption Active involvement from large & small players More info & current draft spec: http://portablecontacts.net

Effort underway to standardize:

contact schema

discovery / auth

common operations

Focused on ease & speed of adoption

Active involvement from large & small players

More info & current draft spec: http://portablecontacts.net

Making people data portable: it really works! User signs in with an OpenID Site fetches OpenID URL  looks for X-XRDS-Location Site parses XRDS-Simple doc to discover available APIs Site tries to access contacts API  gets a 401 WWW-Authenticate response header specifies OAuth OAuth Discovery (via XRDS) provides OAuth endpoints Site sends user though OAuth flow to grant access User returns to site with authorized access token Site can now access users’ contacts data via API + token

User signs in with an OpenID

Site fetches OpenID URL  looks for X-XRDS-Location

Site parses XRDS-Simple doc to discover available APIs

Site tries to access contacts API  gets a 401

WWW-Authenticate response header specifies OAuth

OAuth Discovery (via XRDS) provides OAuth endpoints

Site sends user though OAuth flow to grant access

User returns to site with authorized access token

Site can now access users’ contacts data via API + token

http:// portablecontactsdemo.janrain.com

http:// www.plaxo.com/pdata/testClient

http://code.google.com/p/jpoco/

http://code.google.com/p/jpoco/

http://code.google.com/p/jpoco/

http://code.google.com/p/jpoco/

http://code.google.com/p/jpoco/

So, in conclusion…

http://thesocialweb.tv