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Title:

The Social Web: No More Walled Gardens

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Organizer:
Joseph Smarr, Plaxo
Description:
Leading technologists will debate the progress toward a more open version of the Social Web. Learn about key technical building blocks that open the “walled garden” and allow users own their data and take it with them to social sites all over the Web. How do the pieces fit together?
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is the “Social Web” and how is it different from the “walled garden” model of social networking?
  2. What are the market forces that will either accelerate or impede the technical progress of the new model?
  3. Why do we need it?
  4. Who owns your data and friends?
  5. What is OAuth? OpenID? OpenSocial? Microformats? Portable Contacts? Open Social? Google Friend Connect? XMPP?
  6. What makes data truly portable?
  7. How will communication platforms and social networks work together?
  8. What’s the deal with Google and Facebook?
  9. What needs to happen to make the web truly open?
  10. Is Open safe and how is privacy protected in Social Web?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Community / Social Networks
Type:
Panel
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
on 8/8/08
yay social web!
on 8/8/08
What I wanted to call this panel is "The Social Web TV: Live from SXSW!".

We plan to bring together Joseph Smarr, David Recordon, Chris Messina, and me to do our weekly Internet TV show from the stage at SXSW.

Check out the show at http://thesocialweb.tv

Thanks!
on 9/8/08
Saw your interview on MIT Tech Review and was intrigued. Looking forward to this!
Jeff Tooley
on 16/8/08
Yep, I'd like to see these guys there.
on 27/8/08
Great work - definitely deserving of a spot at SXSW.
on 1/9/08
We've been talking about it for long enough. How do we bring down the walls from the outside? Our make them obsolete without waiting for the key-holders to relent?
on 24/10/09
Saw your interview on MIT Tech Review and was intrigued. Looking forward to this!
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