OpeningUpSocialGraph

OpeningUpSocialGraph (OpenFaced panel: Opening Up the Social Graph.)

When: Tuesday, 2:15pm-2:45pm

Panelists

• Tantek Çelik (moderator)
• Joseph Smarr, Plaxo
• Ted Grubb, Satisfaction Unlimited
• David Recordon, SixApart
• Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook

Structure

This session will demonstrate and discuss various open approaches to social networks / social graphs.

Part 1 (~15 min) The panelists will spend up to 3-4 minutes each demonstrating their approach/implementations of open social graph / social network portability support.

Part 2 (~15 min) The moderator will pose various questions to the panelists. Questions will be chosen both from the below list and from the audience.

Suggested Questions

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• Q: Facebook seems to work really well for millions of users every day. What's the problem?
• Q: What's stopping you? What are the obstacles? Are they political or technical or social?
• Q: Where does the open feed exist? Facebook has their own proprietary set of data and news feed, if you have implemented an open social version, where and how would you publish that data?
• Q: Who is going to be the identity broker? Are they going to take it all in and farm it all out?
• Q: What does it really mean to be open?
• Q: What happens if a second major social platform emerges? How do things work then?
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Tags

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• graphingsocial graphingsocial2007 openingupsocialgraph

Notes

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