This XG started on 6 April 2009 and closed on 6 December 2010. See the final report.
The mission of the Social Web Incubator Group, part of the Incubator Activity, is to understand the systems and technologies that permit the description and identification of people, groups, organizations, and user-generated content in extensible and privacy-respecting ways.
See the charter for more information.
As a W3C Incubator group, our primary responsibility is to produce a final report summarizing our discussions with other groups, and propose a way forward for the W3C to participate productively in the wider Social Web ecosystem. In particular, we will survey the landscape for community-driven standards that in the future may be interested in W3C standardization, and how current W3C standards or Recommendation track work should take into account wider Social Web initiatives from outside the W3C.
Wiki: Most of our work happens on our wiki. The wiki is readable by the public, but in order to make sure all contributions are royalty free, only members can edit the wiki.
For aggregated updates: Visit the Planet Social.
Social Web Microblog: Just join the swxg! group on identi.ca.
For high-level updates: Check out the Last Week In W3C Social Web blog!
2009-11-04: Future of the Social Web Panel held at W3C TPAC (See W3C Announcement), see notes on wiki.
2009-11-02: Social Web XG Face to Face held at W3C TPAC (See W3C Announcement), see notes on wiki.
2009-04-29: Social Web Camp held at Sun Offices in San Jose
2009-04-29: Social Web Camp held at WWW2009 (See W3C Announcement), see notes on wiki.
2009-04-06: Initial W3C news release announcing the formation of Social Web.