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From Data Sharing Summit
Data Sharing Summit, Sept. 7th and 8th in Richmond, CA
Inovis Offices in Richmond.
1400 Marina Way South
Richmond, CA 94804
Sorry about the 5 messages to the facebook group. Honestly I didnt' think it had gone out the message sat there on my screen...no notice it was sent. Clearly they have some UI issues still.
Goals
This event is being called to address interoperability between social networks.
The goal of the Data Sharing Summit is to get a number of the key players, developers and platforms in the social networking, blogging and associated 'social software' platforms togeher in one room and hash out a bunch of key issues:
- interop testing between disparate systems
- standardized schemas, protocols and APIs
- mapping to proprietary platforms
- on-going efforts, including worldwide meetings
Background
Kaliya Hamlin aka [http://www.identitywoman.net">Identity Woman</a> stepped up to facilitate, she has had a lot of experience over the last few years - helping professional communities working to solve real world problems get stuff done with their face time. One very successful example is the The Internet Identity Workshop which will have its 5th 'conference' this fall.
We don’t want to confuse our event with some hackathon or place to talk about code. We’ll talk about schemas, protocols, RPC routines, usage scenarios and sponsorship efforts. We’ll mostly about discussing interop, what standards to persue and get a bunch of us together who all share the same goals.
The emphasis is on vendors who can implement these standards in their social networks and social web tools. We love individuals, we're all individuals - but unless you can do something directly to help - we'd prefer it if......... well let's just say - we love individuals.
Richmond, CA is 3 cities north of Berkeley on the East Bay - yes this is a bit out of the way but it means folks really committed to coming will come.
Did you know that Ning enables you to export your entire network's worth of user data and content? Kudos to Marc, Gina, Diego and the whole team at Ning! We've set up a Facebook group - which has over 300 members. I've started message forum threads around each topic area. Please feel free to start whatever you want here - as well. Pat Paterson (of Sun) is reporting that he exported his list of friend from LinkedIn (via CVS) and imported them into Facebook>. NOW WE'RE TALKING! <p>Marc Canter got this all started with this Blog post and this one about Open Standards for Social Networking.
Kim Cameron (of Microsoft) reports on some user-centric identity Interop testing done by the Burton Group. This is what WE need for our interop to suceed - extensive testing!
Marc Canter posts on The Chess Game of Social Networking. d
Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon post their Thoughts on the Social Graph regarding social network portability. A Google Group on the subject already has over 300 members.
Plaxo develops and releases to open source a microformats-based Online Identity Consolidator.
Confirmation for folks coming include:
- MindTouch
- SixApart
- Verisign
- Clearspring (sponsor)
- AOL (sponsor)
- Sxip
- Elgg
- Cerado (sponsor)
- Leverage (sponsor)
- Yahoo
- Ning
- Cyworld
- Cordance
- Parity
- Dabble
- Compete
- Lookery
- Amsoft
- Informed Control
- TeeBeeDee
- Plaxo
- Activeweave
- Pownce
- and individuals as well!
