OMA and OpenSocial collaborate to deliver social web specifications

SAN DIEGO, USA: OMA and OpenSocial Foundation are jointly announcing the release of their respective latest social web specifications after having worked collaboratively over the past two years.

The OMA Social Network Web (SNeW) Enabler for federating social networks references OpenSocial specifications as part of the OMA SNeW V1.0 release. These specifications allow mobile operators to offer users an enhanced, "federated" social networking experience. Federated social networking offers users the ability to interact across social networks in an integrated fashion.

The OMA SNeW Enabler allows large-scale deployment and interoperability of SNeW clients and SNeW servers in a timely manner, further guaranteeing social network federation, so that users can easily communicate with users on other social networks using their mobile number as well as migrate their data across providers.

OpenSocial 2.5.1 release, improves the REST API, specifically the Person and Activity Stream services. These and other enhancements to the OpenSocial specification ensure interoperability with the Open Mobile Alliance SNeW Enabler. It also adds in new features that were previously in incubation, such as the Common Container, which formalizes the APIs for application lifecycle and management, as well as adds new capabilities such as the ability to introspect the services with an OpenSocial platform through a metadata API.