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Archive for December, 2007

To Push? or To Pull?

In a user-centric social network (aka distributed social network) two friends who would like to share data will nominally use different servers. So we have to decide how the data will be shared between the four entities – the two servers and the two clients. In effect we need to decide who will pull the […]

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This morning Jeff’s status in Facebook read: “Jeff Pulver is wondering if we will still be exchanging business cards in 2010. And why?” An indirect answer: Jeff’s business card in VON Fall 2007: His business card in VON Spring 2008:

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A couple of days back, Anne Zelenka wrote about DiSo, an approach to building a distributed social network using WordPress as the basic platform. A week back, Chris Messina mentioned in his blog about his plans to work on a “prototype project to build a social network with its skin inside out” and he called […]

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In a post yesterday Brough Turner laments that he has multiple communication modes – email, IM and the like, has multiple identities – email id, IM id, has other presence in the Net – blog, social network and the like. Additionally he notes that each of these services allows him to maintain directories of friends, […]

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In yesterday’s post Chris Messina quotes Joseph Smarr who has laid out an import set of roles that help to clarify how pieces of applications should be architected: “ first of all, people have contact details like email addresses, webpage addresses (URLs), instant messaging handles, phone numbers… and any number of these identifiers can be […]

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Another day, another post damning Facebook. This one faults the execution and personally attacks the young Founder and CEO. “In the space of a month, it’s gone from media darling to devil,” according to Josh Quittner, the author of the post. Even though most of the users of Facebook does not know because “[i]t works […]

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Data Portability

With the rise of social networks, a sizable number of people have expressed concern that user generated content is being locked up in hands of a few who benefit enormously. To protect this, these networks have hindered attempts by users to port the data from one network to another, confirming the concerns expressed by the […]

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Many people have put forward the benefits of decentralizing social networks. Some of the more prominent ones are Tim Berners-Lee and Dave Winer. Today I came across a post by Jens Alfke where he argues in favor of decentralizing social networks. Actually he goes in step forward: “… I believe that implies that a very […]

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