Comment on Tim Berners-Lee says Facebook is a trapComments−dododo15yw3c should create open standards for social networks.i don't think these companies are going to do it, and this seems exactly what w3c is meant to do. so why not? seems more productive.−arethuza15yI don't exactly rejoice at the idea of reading another W3C standard document.−rapind15yWell there's FOAF (RDF Ontology for Social Networking). You may want to use a proprietary backend to manage your data as a social networking provider, but the w3c schema already exists to share your graph.Here's Tim's foaf data as an example: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card−pyre15yWhy not? Because I would rather not have yet another xml-based standard.
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w3c should create open standards for social networks.
i don't think these companies are going to do it, and this seems exactly what w3c is meant to do. so why not? seems more productive.
I don't exactly rejoice at the idea of reading another W3C standard document.
Well there's FOAF (RDF Ontology for Social Networking). You may want to use a proprietary backend to manage your data as a social networking provider, but the w3c schema already exists to share your graph.
Here's Tim's foaf data as an example: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card
Why not? Because I would rather not have yet another xml-based standard.