Adding Some Spice To The Old Acronym Soup

June 23 2010 10:30:00 AM Add/Read Comments [1]
SMTP, POP3, IMAP, LDAP, LPTA, iCal, vCard, SIP, XMPP, and on and on goes list of standards used by enterprise collaboration products over the last decade.  But now as the open web begins to work its way into the business world, a new generation of standards and protocols are emerging.  

A few of the most popular ones include:
  • Activity Streams - An extension to the Atom feed format to express what people are doing around the web
  • Oauth - An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications
  • OStatus - Lets people on different social networks follow each other
  • PubSubHubbub - Provide near-instant notifications of change updates
  • Twitter Annotations - Annotations represent structured metadata about the tweet.  Note: This model can be used beyond Twitter.
  • Webhooks  - A web application implementing WebHooks will POST a message to a URL when certain things happen

I'm just a marketing guy and don't pretend to understand these things technically, but what I do know is that things are changing.  Are you evolving your skill set to include the tools of the open web?  Which others should I add to the list above?
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