In a world with lots of socially-aware sites and lots of open social web building blocks how do the pieces fit together? and what will the new Social Web look like? Reminder: The social web today is broken On each site, we still have to: Re-create an account Re-enter our profile info Re-find our friends Re-establish our relationships New social apps have limited options: Create yet-another-silo (and start from scratch) -or- Make a widget inside an existing walled garden but we know how to make things better! Create a portable, durable online identity OpenID Sign up / sign in with an existing account Link / share your profile data between sites Example: Sign up for Plaxo with OpenID Create a portable, durable online identity OpenID Sign up / sign in with an existing account Link / share your profile data between sites rel=me (XFN) Consolidate your online identity with me-links Social Graph API See what your users said about themselves Public profiles enrich online identity Build and maintain real relationships Contact APIs Find people from your current address book Leverage previously established relationships OAuth Share private data between trusted sites Friends-list portability Continuous discovery across multiple sites A periodic check of new people from your networks on other sites Stay up-to-date with the people you know OpenSocial Build social apps that can run anywhere OpenSocial Stay up-to-date with the people you know OpenSocial Build social apps that can run anywhere RSS / Atom Syndicate your activity to share with others Jabber (XMPP) Real-time update stream between sites How does friends-list portability work? Tell the site your Social Graph Provider Site fetches your data to find local friends Site lets you connect to people you want How does friends-list portability work? Tell the site your Social Graph Provider XRDS-Simple (discovery) + OAuth (access) Site fetches your data to find local friends Site lets you connect to people you want How does friends-list portability work? Tell the site your Social Graph Provider XRDS-Simple (discovery) + OAuth (access) Site fetches your data to find local friends Site lets you connect to people you want Can periodically look for new matches How does friends-list portability work? Tell the site your Social Graph Provider XRDS-Simple (discovery) + OAuth (access) Site fetches your data to find local friends ??? (no standard way to do thisyet) Site lets you connect to people you want Can periodically look for new matches Need a standard for portable contact data Effort underway to standardize: contact schema discovery / auth common operations Focused on ease & speed of adoption Great initial feedback from big & small players More coming soon: Building blocks in action: contacts portability User signs in with an OpenID - Site fetches OpenID URL looks for X-XRDS- Location - Site parses XRDS-Simple doc to discover available APIs Site tries to access contacts API gets a WWW-Authenticate response header specifies OAuth - OAuth Discovery (via XRDS) provides OAuth endpoints Site sends user though OAuth flow to grant access - User returns to site with authorized access token - Site can now access users contacts data via API + token so how do these building blocks fit together?