Spribo announces its plans to develop smart social mashups

August 17, 2009

The social web market has proven exponential growth, as it has been massively adopted by young generations ("Millenials") around the globe. Market trends indicate that the social web not only will keep growing via alternative paths such as consumer mobility and niche social networks, but it is also starting to impact older audiences – expanding its potential to the entire Internet population. Businesses migrating their web 1.0 pages to web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, specialized health networks, and Government 2.0 promoted by the White House, are a few representative examples of the adoption of web 2.0 in the professional and enterprise markets. Web 3.0, also known as the semantic web, aims at the concept of linked data by proposing more intelligent ways to represent and communicate knowledge and provides a standard framework to interact with ubiquitous sources of information. Web 3.0 emerging standards can make communications, access to digital media and digital services smarter and easier to use via knowledge management. Communities that conform virtual ecosystems can interact via social software applications that use knowledge modeling, enabling members to access digital media more effectively and control with whom they want to communicate and collaborate based on trusted relationships. 

Organizations that make the decision to adopt the social web are increasingly using the most popular web 2.0 sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, Blogger, WordPress, YouTub and Slideshare to create groups, channels and other virtual spaces for communication, collaboration, marketing feedback, branding, customer service and other purposes. During the first phase of its beta, Spribo has supported RSS, embedded code, widgets and other web 2.0 resources that interact at a basic level with some of these sites and has developed the first components to interface with APIs from Google, AOL, MSN and Yahoo to import contacts. 

Spribo announced today that it will extend its APIs to support stronger identity federation and additional interaction with the most popular Web 2.0 sites, developing smart mashup capabilities enabled by its semantic social platform. Spribo customers will not only benefit from seamless aggregation of social media resources on one trusted site under terms and conditions published by the content sources and user control of personal information, but also from the semantic processing features and ontology resources of the Spribo platform.

About Spribo

Spribo is a next-generation web company that offers semantic social media SaaS applications for nonprofits, enterprises and social groups that want to create smarter online communities. Spribo is a subsidiary of QoS Labs.