BuddyPress

Here is a list of Semantic Web and Open Stack resources to help new members get up to speed with our discussions:

1. What is the Open Stack
2. OpenID
3. FOAF+SSL
4. OpenID versus FOAF+SSL
5. WebIDs
6. Web Access Control Lists
7. Building Secure Open & Distributed Social Networks
8. BuddyPress: Authentication versus Authorization
9. OAuth, BuddyPress, and Privacy

We will add to this list as we come across additional resources. Please feel free to suggest links, or start a new thread to discuss a specific resource.

Additional specs/protocols to consider/look at/have handy for reference:

10. Activity Streams (atom on steroids) http://activitystrea.ms/
11. OpenID Connect http://openidconnect.com/
12. Oauth 2.0 (This is a new spec) http://hueniverse.com/2010/05/introducing-oauth-2-0/
13. PoCo (portable contacts) http://portablecontacts.net/
14. XAuth (discovery) http://xauth.org/
15. WebFinger (discovery) http://webfinger.org/ http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/
16. Salmon (defining scope of decentralized publication) http://www.salmon-protocol.org/ http://code.google.com/p/salmon-protocol/
17. PubSubHubbub (centralizing portability feeds via push notification) http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5kHx0rGkec
18. XMPP, XRD, & JRD (the evolution of a connectivity backbone) http://hueniverse.com/2010/05/jrd-the-other-resource-descriptor/
19. The Internet Identity Workshop http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/

Also, the BuddyPress thread that started us down this path to creating this group: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/alternative-to-facebook/

To learn more about the distributed social semantic web space, see my article, A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging

A great slide presentation on the Social Web by John Breslin and Alex Passant (see slide 68-69 for some specific motivation): The Social Semantic Web

Interesting new idea, the Semantic Pingback.

Here’s a WordPress plugin that creates a PubSubHubBub hub in your WP install. This could be one key piece in helping to make WordPress a truly distributed platform.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pushpress/

An article on how FOAF+SSL allows the creation of a Web of Trust (WOT) without the need of key signing parties: http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/more_on_authorization_in_foaf

I am working on some of these functionalities for wordpress:

* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/webfinger/
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oexchange/
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/salmon/
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xauth/
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/well-known/
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/host-meta/
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/activitystream-extension/

and the ostatus plugin is under developement

I have not much experience with buddypress, but if there is something I could change/add for a better buddypress support… please let me know