Category Archives: Overview of standards and protocols

A framework for Decentralization

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Sumair

Social networking forms an important part of online activities of Web users. Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Orkut have millions of users using them everyday. However, these sites present two problems. Firstly, these sites form information silos. Information … Continue reading →

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OAuth

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Jonny

With so many servers running independently of each other on the etags network, there needs to be a way to give a server permission to access parts of a user’s social networking profile, without handing over the entirety of a … Continue reading →

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