Federated Social Web

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The phrase Federated Social Web may refer to:

• the general notion of federation within the context of social standards on the web
• Federated Social Web Summit event (2010 Portland, 2011 Berlin, 2012 San Francisco)
• 2010-era distributed social web standards efforts such as:
  • OStatus (ActivityStreams, PubSubHubbub, Salmon Protocol)
  • PortableContacts
  • Open Graph Protocol
• Federated Social Web IG - W3C Interest Group formed after the 2010 Federated Social Web Summit.
• Federated Social Web CG - W3C Community Group, established in early 2012 from the aforementioned Federated Social Web IG.

Articles

Key articles in the discussion about a/the "federated social web"

• 2010-07-13 Evan Prodromou What is the federated social web? (archive.org link, original offline: http://status.net/2010/07/13/what-is-the-federated-social-web)
• ...
• 2012-08-28 Ben Werdmüller Making billions of dollars from the federated social web
• ...

See Also

• federation
• social web
• Federated Social Web Summit
• 2010-07-13 Evan Prodromou: What is the federated social web?, http://status.net/2010/07/13/what-is-the-federated-social-web
• 2013/osfw3c
• social standards
• StatusNet