Distributed social network protocols

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General Resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network

http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/CloudStorage.html

Basics

RDF-Schema

RDF stands for resource description framework. A schema provides a vocabulary that can be used in for example to classify xml-data. With this classification the data becomes machine-readable, so programms can handle the data dependend on the context. With this you can for example tag certain links on you homepage as links to the homepages of friends (using a appropriate schema). By crawling this information robots can then build up a network of befriended personal websites, which might then help you discover new sites that are of value for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schema

Protocols/Schemas/Projects

Describes the content produced by one or multiple users as a flow of activity objects. The complete data set of the social net is described as one stream of things like: “Alice posted lalala, Bob liked Alices post, …” The language covers a wide variety of things that can happen on social networks, like comments, events, locations, ratings, mood, …

The specification clarifies how, activity stream object should be structured when rendered as xml or json. As a describtive language for social network content the specification is well suited. When collecting multiple source of content into a single view, duplicate entries can easily be detected and displayed accordingly.