IndieWeb is a community of people building software to enable personal independently hosted websites to maintain their social data on their own web domains rather than on large, centralized
social networking service
A social networking service (SNS), or social networking site, is a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interest ...
s. It was first developed at a
series of conferences known as
IndieWebCamp by
Tantek Çelik
Tantek Çelik is a Turkish-American computer scientist, currently the Web standards lead at Mozilla Corporation. Çelik was previously the chief technologist at Technorati. He worked on microformats and is one of the principal editors of seve ...
,
Amber Case,
Aaron Parecki,
Crystal Beasley and
Kevin Marks
Kevin Marks is on the Advisory Council of the Open Rights Group, a UK-based Digital Rights campaigning organization and is an Open Web Advocate. He is one of the founders of Microformats.
Marks was listed at #13 in ''The Daily Telegraph'' ...
.
It uses a suite of tools including
Webmention
Webmention is a W3C recommendation that describes a simple protocol to notify any URL when a website links to it, and for web pages to request notifications when somebody links to them. Webmention was originally developed in the IndieWebCamp com ...
and
microformats
Microformats (μF) are predefined HTML markup (like HTML classes) created to serve as descriptive and consistent metadata about HTML element, elements, designating them as representing a certain type of data (such as address book, contact info ...
to decentralize social communication and distribution of content.
The IndieWeb
is based on 10 core principles:
# Own your data.
# Use & publish visible data for humans first, machines second.
# Make what you need.
# Use what you make.
# Document your stuff.
# Open source your stuff.
# UX and design is more important than protocols, formats, data models, schema etc.
# Modularity.
# Longevity.
# Plurality.
and an informal eleventh: "Above all, Have fun."
See also
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Solid (web decentralization project)
Solid (abbreviation from ''Social Linked Data'') is a Decentralized web, web decentralization project led by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, originally developed collaboratively at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
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Distributed social network
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References
External links
Official website
Blog software
Communications protocols
DIY culture
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