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w3c should create open standards for social networks. i don't think these companies are going to do it, and this seems exactly what w3c is meant to do. so why
by dododo 16y ago
w3c should create open standards for social networks.
i don't think these companies are going to do it, and this seems exactly what w3c is meant to do. so why not? seems more productive.
- arethuza 16y agoI don't exactly rejoice at the idea of reading another W3C standard document.
- pyre 16y agoWhy not? Because I would rather not have yet another xml-based standard.
- rapind 16y agoWell there's FOAF (RDF Ontology for Social Networking). You may want to use a proprietary backend to manage your data as a social networking provider, but the w3c schema already exists to share your graph. Here's Tim's foaf data as an example: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card