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PAC, short for Profile, Activity, and Contacts, is an attempt at a browser-supported infrastructure for social activity on the web. Social walled gardens have siloed off user data, and such systems rarely play nicely with each other. This has led both users and developers to have to choose which systems they wish to utilize, at the expense of communications with users and web sites who have made different decisions. | PAC, short for Profile, Activity, and Contacts, is an attempt at a browser-supported infrastructure for social activity on the web. Social walled gardens have siloed off user data, and such systems rarely play nicely with each other. This has led both users and developers to have to choose which systems they wish to utilize, at the expense of communications with users and web sites who have made different decisions. | ||
PAC wishes to be a user-controlled, pluggable system, where a user can mix and match which services they use for which purposes, and | PAC wishes to be a user-controlled, pluggable system, where a user can mix and match which services they use for which purposes, and leverage the power of the browser as a user agent to mediate data exchange negotiations with other sites and users. | ||
* [[Labs/PAC/Psync|pSync]] is a repository for a user's personal profile data. From their profile server, a user can license select portions of their identity and personal data (such as Delta and Contacts) to interested parties. | * [[Labs/PAC/Psync|pSync]] is a repository for a user's personal profile data. From their profile server, a user can license select portions of their identity and personal data (such as Delta and Contacts) to interested parties. | ||