Portable Social Networks

Alper Çugun

Who are you?

OpenID

Identity is a prerequisite

Now what?

The buddy list is the centre of the universe.

--Stowe Boyd

Tremendous benefits of sociality

Open Translation

Microformats

hCard

hCard class=”photo”

hResume

hReview

XFN

Simple protocol

Re-use plain old technology

No privacy controls

Simple Registration Extension

Registration information

Persona support

Fine grained privacy control

Complex protocol

Limited data dictionary

Can’t we do this already?

Simple implementations

OpenAvatar

http://alper.nl/cgi-bin/OpenAvatar.py?

openid=http://alper.nl

Next?

Publish more information on your

OpenID page

Problems

Standard Evolution

OpenID Exposure

Thanks

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