Open Standards for Social Networking

Basic concept:

• I use multiple services/tools to create/publish media objects, whether that's Social Media or something "more serious". Some of that I'm happy to have viewed by anyone (and I'd like to relate it to my other "feeds"). Some of it I want available to various subgroups of people (friends, family, friends not in my family, etc.).

• I also want a Universal Inbox where I can get some kind of notification of new objects (and new feeds) published by people in my Social Network, etc. (Is that my Rss Aggregator?)

This leads to:

• open Digital Identity so it's easy to join new services that your friends post on, with Single Sign On for return visits

  • also want to bring these services together into your Identity Hub

  • OpenID looks like the path here

  • I think there's an "advanced" version of it that allows an OpenID server to provide some info beyond "yes this person know's Bob's password" - e.g. his email address

  • Almost every service has to become an OpenID server, giving anyone who wants to join the option of using an existing OpenID from somewhere else, or creating one there. (Or maybe this becomes more like a referral service, where I have a preferred OpenID partner I point people to who want to quickly create one, knowing they have a super-streamlined process.)

• Open [Digital Group Identity] for Group Forming (Social Graph). Which leads to some messy User Stories...

  • [JYte] has an API with some support for Group handling.

Hmm, need to structure this as some User Stories...

AList-er generating content/activity

• Add post/object

AList-er viewing/receiving content/activity

• discover new person-of-interest

Newbie coming online

• sign up for WebMail account at a PorTal

• start following channels of newsfeeds in that PorTal

• discover RSS feeds in the Rss Aggregator feature of that PorTal

• start following some of the promoted RSS feeds

• discover another blog you want to follow. ugh what now?

• a friend tells you they're on Face Book. what do you do?

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