DiSo Dashboard Outline

Outline format for DiSO Dashboards A format to tie the distributed web together

Current focus of DiSO
Find agreement on Activity stream feed formats
Verbs and Objects
Atom media extensions
Most major platforms lining up

Feeds in a distributed world
Activity stream reflects what a user or group is doing, with a unique item for each update
Output from a wide range of sources
User subscribes to these feeds – and aggregates them in a ‘dashboard’ or some other form of aggregator or lifestream mngr
These aggregators can be social networks or blogging platforms

Dashboards can be a common notion that can connect users together
All users will have some sort of Dashboard or centralized place for “all their stuff”
Dashboards can be:
a start page (iGoogle, NetVibes, MyYahoo)
a social network (Facebook, MySpace)
a blog (Wordpress, TypePad)
a meta-aggregator (FriendFeed)
or practically anything else

Dashboards can represent….
An Individual
A Group
An Enterprise
An NGO or other kind of org or even a government agency
But it’s clearly a node in the user’s distributed web
Which can be used as a mechanism for collecting and sharing in the distributed web

By connecting Dashboards together
We can have a metaphor to connect any kind of app and/or web service to any kind of community and/or end-user
Each Dashboard would have an outline which could act as a data pivot point for connecting distributed systems together

Each Dashboard’s outline
Would represent the Dashboard’s info:
User’s state and presence
Profile data and social info
Content and media
Feeds and access privileges
Modules and Configuration settings
Could be ‘discovered’
And would help facilitate:
Dataportability
Interoperability
Shared Social Graphs
Distributed friending and messaging
Aggregated Groups and Communities
Other kinds of distributed ‘goodness’

Outline format – the beginning
Type of Dashboard
Feeds Subscriptions
Access privileges to those Feeds
who gets ‘access to what’ in the feeds
the Dashboard’s access privs would regulate access to data objects, people, web pages or practically anything else – controlled by the user
sort of like Facebook Connect for us all

Outline format – and an ID Hub
JanRain is offering something, which we (BBM) started building with PeopleAggregator
A collection of ID technologies called an ID Hub
ID Hubs would support both open and proprietary ID systems – and connect them together

ID Hubs are important
They support the Open Stack and help bring user centric IDs to all
But they also recognize the market leaders and are pragmatic for today’s installed base

So every Dashboard will store a user’s ID Hub
ID Hubs should be a part of the Dashboard’s outline
Each ID system would be kept
track of
And an aggregated social graph
would be developed

And every Dashboard should also help facilitate distributed Friending
Distributed Friending will store each person’s set of Friends on their own ‘dashboard’
Sort of like Google Friend Connect – only WE get a copy of our own social graph, not Google

4 different buttons, same technology
Distributed Friending can facilitate different kinds of social relationships, at the same time

Outline format – and Social info
A full range of Social info would
be stored in the Dashboard’s Outline
In addition to distributed friending
What Groups or Networks they’re
a member of
What their Favs are
What their Bookmarks are
All sorts of info about the user and other people

Outline format – and Content
All of the User’s Content would be
represented in their Dashboard’s
Outline
All kinds of text posts, notes, Twits
and Messages
Comments
Reviews and Events
Testimonials and Shoutouts
Connected to the Dashboard’s Access controls

Outline format – and Media
And all sorts of media, both
payloads and pointers
With collections of media item
- as well
Playlists of Video and Audio
Albums and Galleries of Images
Connected to the Dashboard’s
Access controls

Outline format – Modules & Widgets
The Dashboard’s Outline would also
represent what modules, widgets
and code were present
What Flash and Ajax/Javascript
Widgets are included
What platform specific ‘Gadgets’
What OpenSocial Apps and
Facebook apps
What code segments, Java apps,
ActiveX controls

Outline format – UI Elements
And what UI Elements were
‘ surfaced’ to the users
All of the Elements which make
up the Dashboard’s UI

Outline format – Dashboard Configuration
And finally what:
Those UI settings are
Which web services and
APIs are supported
What Templates are being
utilized
What meta-data – about
the entire Dashboard
What Devices are supported
Geo information
Directories of everything;
where everything is

All in one Outline
By combining all of this distributed data – in one outline, a wide range of inter-connectivity can be facilitated – with one format
The outline serves as an aggregation of standard info – accessible the same way across a wide range of dashboards
Not necessarily a file or page tags (maybe both)
Can/should be OPML and XOXO compatible too!
And created/edited in a new kind of tool

DiSO Dashboard

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