Slides from my presentation

1. Federating the Social Web
FSOSS 2010

2. hi, i'm "walkah"

4. open source microblogging

5. completely federated

6. why?

7. the problem

11. problems
multiple accounts (dozens?)
fragmented conversation
lack of ownership

12. monoliths don't scale

13. metcalfe's law

14. metcalfe's law
the value of a network is
proportional to the square of the
number of connected users of the
system (n2).

15. the more the
much, much merrier

16. socialnetwork.biz 101
1. get venture capital
2. make social network software
3. get everyone in the world to use it
4. WIN!

17. the right way™
1. have people
2. make or buy or install social network software
3. connect to the rest of the world
4. MOAR WIN!

18. open source

19. open source definition
free redistribution
derived works
no discrimination against persons or groups
no discrimination against fields of endeavor

20. open web philosophies
decentralization
hackability
two-way communication
third-party integration & innovation

21. prior art
"Email" = SMTP, RFC 1822, RFC 5322, MIME...
"Web" = HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript...
"Blogging" = Web, RSS or Atom, Atom API,
trackback,...

22. the social web?

23. a solution

24. OStatus

25. An open standard for distributed status updates
in near-realtime across different messaging
hubs.

26. microblogging features
followers - subscription to individual updates
replies / mentions - conversation / attention
favourites - (a.k.a. "likes")
groups - ability to join/leave and receive updates

27. open standards bingo

28. webfinger
http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/
identity - addressing
email-like identifiers
discovery (endpoints, services)

29. portable contacts
http://portablecontacts.net/
represent user/people data
similar to vcard
avaliable as an atom extension

30. activity streams
http://activitystrea.ms/
actor + verb + object
represent social activity
avaliable as an atom extension

31. pubsubhubbub
http://code.google.com/apis/pubsubhubbub/
decentralized "push" for feeds
simple, open server-to-server pubsub
atom entries real-time to subscribers

32. salmon
http://www.salmon-protocol.org/
allow comments/notes to "swim upstream"
open, decentralized & abuse-resistant
targetted atom entries

33. @todo
private profiles
approved/symmetric friendships
direct messaging

34. opportunities
atom is extensible
more activity objects & verbs
additional applications

35. resources
FSW: http://federatedsocialweb.net/
OStatus: http://ostatus.org/
Enable your app:
how-ostatus-enable-your-application

36. keep in touch!
1. Implement OStatus compliant software
2. Follow acct:james@status.net
3. Say hi!
(or sign up at http://status.net/)

37. thank you