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Daniel Appelquist's Presentation at Emerging Communication Conference & Awards 2009 Europe
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2. What is the “Social Web” and Why Should I Care? Daniel Appelquist Vodafone Group R&D 29 October 2009
3. One Channel 3 What is the “Social Web?” November 10, 2009
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7. 7 Reflected in some recent events “Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit” Mashable, February 2009 “Denial-of-Service Attack Knocks Twitter Offline” Wired, August 2009 “FriendFeed Users Shocked by Facebook Acquisition” Mashable, August 2009 “U.S. Government Asks Twitter to Stay Up for #IranElection” Mashable, June 2009 “Tr.im Shuts Down – What happens to your links now?” The Inquisitr, August 2009
8. Quick check… 71% of social network users are active in more than one social network How many social networks do you belong to? 8 What is the “Social Web?” November 10, 2009
23. 14 The so-called “Open Stack” is emerging 3rd party applications API: OpenSocial Service to service API: Atom, RSS Profiles: RDF, OpenSocial Activities: Activitystrea.ms Contacts: Portable Contacts, FOAF Authentication: PKI, OpenID, FOAF-SSL Access Control: OAuth Service discovery: Yadis, XRDS, XRDS-Simple, XEP-0030 Unique identifier: URLs, email, JID Transport: HTTP, XMPP
24. Who are the Companies Pushing the Social Web? Big Corporates: Google Yahoo! Facebook Myspace Plaxo Vodafone Grass Roots: Identi.ca XMPP – XSF FOAF Open source efforts OSLO Alliance 15 What is the “Social Web?” November 10, 2009
25. Industry and individual Efforts Open Social Open Web Foundation OpenID and Oauth Portable Contacts Open Micro-blogging Community (status.net) 16 What is the “Social Web?” November 10, 2009
26. Why is this relevant to us here? People are increasingly turning to social networks as a communication medium Trust Richness Ease Fun Social networks are already disrupting email How long until they disrupt voice communication? Witness: Teens with Blackberries If communication is becoming social and social is becoming open, where does that leave us? Selling Facebook phones to Foursquare kids? 17 What is the “Social Web?” November 10, 2009
27. We need to support and nurture this emerging Social Web trend 18 What is the “Social Web?” November 10, 2009
28. W3C Social Web Incubator Group http://bit.ly/socialwebxg 19 What is the “Social Web?” November 10, 2009
29. 20 What is the “Social Web?” November 10, 2009 Thank you Daniel Appelquist Vodafone Group R&D @torgo