XMPP(jabber)组织最近成立了一个social邮件列表: social@xmpp.org

主要关注协议层面xmpp与social network整合的问题。目前主要推动者是Harper Reed
他主要关注用开源技术和XMPP来构建social network，如skinnyCorp ，目前倾向使用ejabberd来扩展。

由于maillist刚创建，现在不少人在自我介绍，包括XMPP与mobile, web, social game, p2p音乐, 电子书分享等整合的领域。

目前考虑到的思路

1. 目前讨论的思路是利用XMPP现有的roster好友管理,pub/sub分享/订阅等协议来实现一个social network的功能，由于roster,pub/sub已经有很长时间的应用基础，而且也有大型分布式的一些成熟模块。目前的局限就是这些功能还是限制在xmpp client的使用层面，没有在Web或者更广泛的层面发挥作用。

One of the things I've talked a bit about is how useful some of the
core xmpp tools would be to developers of social networks (say using
the roster tools, which would automatically handle registration,
friending, defriending etc. but do it on a giant scale and
distributedly). Getting this data out of xmpp right now though, is by
and large limited to people with access to xmpp clients. This wouldn't
be so bad but it's a pain in the butt to spin up thousands and
thousands of xmpp clients to access people friendship data.

2. XMPP组织下一步web & xmpp 整合是一个重心

James Walker wrote:

> particularly if we'll be
> discussing integrating web & xmpp stuff.

You betcha, that's the big focus here.

Peter

3. 一些其他观点和思路值得借鉴

I'm Bill de hÓra, engineering director at NewBay Software.  At work 
we're looking at XMPP to push out notifications, status and alerts from 
web systems, social networks and phones to non-web clients. Polling and 
managing large user numbers (rosters!) is a big deal there. I also 
co-edited the Atom Protocol and as a long time XMPP fan, having Atom 
travel over XMPP as well as the Web is a natural next step :)

邮件列表Web查看:
http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/social/2008-March/thread.html

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