Schedule: Social networks sessions

Real-time interaction is becoming a necessity on the ever-more dynamic Web. Jabber is a powerful established protocol, already used by over 10 million people worldwide, and ideally suited to web application development. Whether you're an API developer or writing client apps, this workshop offers real experience and practical advice. Read more.

OpenSocial is an Open Standard defining a set of common APIs that work on many different social websites, including MySpace, Plaxo, Hi5, Ning, orkut, Salesforce.com and LinkedIn, among others. This allows developers to learn one API, then write a social application for any of those sites, reaching over 200M+ users in dozens of countries: Learn once, write anywhere. Read more.

Why does every new social networking site make you re-enter all your details and rebuild your friends list? Your contact and relationship details are already published elsewhere. If this data is published in hCard and XFN, it is readable by machines as well as people. Learn how a little sprinkling of microformats can create an ecosystem that makes portable social networks a reality. Read more.

Even as we build denser and denser communities online, they're still often disjointed and compartmentalised by language and locality. This session, led by Flickr's lead internationalisation engineer, will explore practical solutions and "pie in the sky" ideas on ways in which we can break down some of those barriers and create truly global places where people can share and communicate. Read more.

We are prone to solve technical problems addressing the needs of conference attending alpha geeks. Yet, widespread adoption is quite different to a private beta. What does this mean? How do we mitigate the desire for rapid progress with the needs of the rest of us? These hot new technologies require some psychological insight to make them meaningful. You know the technology, come and grok humans Read more.

Social Networks are all about communication. How can we start a conversation with and between Social Networking services? Using Jabber/XMPP technologies besides HTTP, we can enable two-way communication between third-party clients and services (XMPP as an API), and have services exchange (events on) social objects and people. In near real-time, with built-in authorization and authentication. Read more.

The attention economy was talked about at the end of 06 to death. Through all the hype, a couple of guys from down-under started to make sense of attention and proposed APML (Attention Profiling Markup Language).Unfortunately little is known about APML and there is a lot of mis-information on APML. As one of the working group members I will run through what it is, its purpose and why its important Read more.

Data portability has become an important requirement on the Social Web. We demonstrate how data and social network portability can be achieved by building upon existing Semantic Web developments such as SIOC and FOAF. SIOC provides a common format for expressing user-generated content and tools for import/export of this information. FOAF provides a way to link users' social networks. Read more.