bear
05-13-2008, 08:03 PM
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Don Smith <dcsmith (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
> From what I can tell there are a few things that jabber could do to
> make decentralized social networking a reality.
> 1. It appears I can do some sort of broadcast, if I had a client that
> would agregate these into a newsfeed I believe it'd be the same as the
> facebook newsfeed.
This appears to me to be nothing more than an simple html+atom module
that consumes a personal PubSub endpoint.
> 2. It appears I can publish data to a jabber server and have other
> people browse it. This could be used for interests/descriptions, etc.
> All the stuff social networking does. Now if contacts could be given
> different levels of access control then the same account could be used
> for a wide variety of people leading to point 3.
Yes, some form of OAuth to enable ACL to the various PubSub nodes that
represent your information is definitely required.
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> From what I can tell there are a few things that jabber could do to
> make decentralized social networking a reality.
> 1. It appears I can do some sort of broadcast, if I had a client that
> would agregate these into a newsfeed I believe it'd be the same as the
> facebook newsfeed.
This appears to me to be nothing more than an simple html+atom module
that consumes a personal PubSub endpoint.
> 2. It appears I can publish data to a jabber server and have other
> people browse it. This could be used for interests/descriptions, etc.
> All the stuff social networking does. Now if contacts could be given
> different levels of access control then the same account could be used
> for a wide variety of people leading to point 3.
Yes, some form of OAuth to enable ACL to the various PubSub nodes that
represent your information is definitely required.
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bear (AT) code-bear (DOT) com (jabber & email)
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