Liberty Alliance announces “People Service”
Wow - coolio. This People Service seems to be very hip.
The Liberty ID-WSF People Service™, a key component in this latest release, is the industry’s first comprehensive platform for managing social information within an open federated network environment. People Service allows consumers and enterprise users to manage social applications such as bookmarks, blogging, calendars, photo sharing and instant messaging from a common layer within the ID-WSF 2.0 framework. Liberty People Service has been developed to allow individuals to easily store, maintain, and categorize online relationships so that other socially-aware Web services applications can leverage information based on the consent and privacy controls established by a user in the federated social network.
Liberty People Service allows users to manage relationships with friends, colleagues and family in a singe location and then leverage these relationships at various applications that build on a social layer. Users invited to view information at one or more sites can easily do so without having to establish a new account at each application in the federated social network. This makes sharing information easier and provides greater protection from online fraud by enabling a more systematic enforcement of privacy policies and reducing duplication of identity data throughout the network.
“With Liberty Alliance People Service, consumers and enterprise users can now centrally manage all of their online social relationships using a federated network approach with privacy controls built into the system,” said Timo Skytta, vice president of the Liberty Alliance and Director, Web Services, Nokia. “Liberty Alliance People Service allows users to leverage the privacy functionality of Liberty Web Services to more easily and securely share social and enterprise information across applications, platforms and service providers.”
I won’t go into the irony of announcing this right after CES and during MacWorld. I wonder if these Liberty people even have a clue what that ruckus is all about.
Eitehr way - I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. It’s just too coolio to be negative about.
Now let’s see who supports it? Friendster, Yahoo? Tribe? Who?
