About overview

We dream of a world where all social networks are connected and work together in One Social Web. The OneSocialWeb projects aims to define the language to bridge these networks and make it easy for social networks to join.

What makes our approach unique, is that we use the technology called XMPP the engine behind Instant Messaging. We can reuse many elements available in XMPP and introduce a few missing elements. Learn more about why we use xmpp

Onesocialweb is an initiative of Vodafone Group Research and Development to serve the discussions and help taking concrete steps towards an open social web. We by no means claim to have all the answers and are very much open to suggestions and feedback. Anyone is invited to join us in making the open social web a reality.

This project has been built upon the shoulders of other standardization initiatives aiming to open up the web and we have been inspired by the visionaries behind them: activitystrea.ms, portablecontacts, OAuth, OpenSocial, FOAF, XRDS, OpenID and more.

The coders and designers in the team are Laurent Eschenauer, Alard Weisscher, Lorena Alvarez and Diana Cheng. We've been using these great open source libraries.