Social stacks for fun and profit by Tim Anglade
Tim put the different methods for connecting to and between social networks in relation to each other and explained what was good, bad and ugly about them:
- OAuth
- OpenID
- The Hire
- XRDS/simple
- Activity Streams
- OpenSocial
The talk was not so much about Drupal. But the point was that all those connecting methods were either very useful or very appliable. Tim argued that it was the main interest of nowadays social networks to have a centralized and locked-down user base and to own their data, and that therefore the interest of social networks weren't that big to build good open connecting methods or protocols.
