Labs/PAC
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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 wishes to be a user-controlled, pluggable system, where a user can mix and match which services they use for which purposes, and additionally leverage the power of the browser as a user agent to mediate data exchange negotiations with other sites and users.
- pSync is a repository for a user's personal profile data, and acts as a central social access point, holding references to the other two pieces.
- Delta is a tool for connecting a user's various social activity streams. From this intersection of the streams at the Delta, a user can license pieces of their various streams out to interested parties.
- Contacts is a repository of a user's social connections across their social sites. From this repository, a user can let interested sites know pieces of their social graph, potentially organized into groups.