Enterprise Social for the Java Platform: Shares, Mashups, Likes, and Ways to Integrate Social Media into Your Cloud Native Enterprise Java Applications

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W. KeilEnterprise Social for the Java Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9571-7_3

3. Standardization

Werner Keil¹  

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Bad Homburg, Hessen, Germany

 

This chapter explores the efforts to standardize access to social media via common APIs, as well as some standards used by social networks themselves, allowing not only to switch more easily between different networks but also analyze data across different sources and social networks.

Types of Standards

Aside from their lobbying of “Basic Standards” like OpenSocial [15], Figure 3-1 provides an overview of social standards by Dachis Group from a series of articles [16].

An overview of misses in social ...