Yang, thanks for the blog post - from what I read so far it looks both broad and deep. I'm going to read it closely when I can find some dedicated time :) .
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Yang <0c4i2h...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > OpenSocial is just a standard API for social networks. Google Friend > Connect is an example of a federated social network that provides and > consumes OpenSocial APIs. > > I actually blogged about OpenSocial and friends recently if you're > interested in learning more. > > > http://yz.mit.edu/wp/2010/01/19/making-sense-of-openid-oauth-opensocial-google-friend-connect-facebook-connect-and-more/#comment-33142483 > > Yang > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Sam Berlin sberlin-at-gmail.com > |p2p-hackers/Example Allow| <g1twvkk...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > > Is this something that that OpenSocial ( > > http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ ) can help with? A good > > number of social sites already support that. I haven't looked into > > the guts of it too deeply, but I think it can support a federated > > social network pretty well. > > > > Sam > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Susheel Daswani > > <sdasw...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > >> Reading a bit more in this thread, I think 'federated social network' is > a > >> more accurate term than 'p2p social network' with regards to examples > I'm > >> looking for. > >> > >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Susheel Daswani < > sdasw...@cs.stanford.edu> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Adam, the use-case I have in mind is not specific - I am asking > generally > >>> about the feasibility of running facebook on top of a distributed > social > >>> network. Lately I've become concerned about the concentration of power > in > >>> Facebook's hands. > >>> From a theoretical point of view I don't see why a distributed social > net > >>> couldn't work. GMail works with YahooMail works with Hotmail, etc. Of > course > >>> there are much bigger challenges distributing a social net across > different > >>> providers, but it should be achievable. > >>> So when I say P2P I don't necessarily mean fully distributed - I mean > more > >>> of the e-mail model. > >>> > >>> Best, > >>> Susheel > >>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Adam Fisk <a...@littleshoot.org> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> I don't really know of any per se, but I also think it's a tricky > >>>> proposition. As Mr. Gorton always used to say, P2P works best for big > files, > >>>> and I really agree. The raw social networking stuff is so data driven > and so > >>>> cheap and predominantly such small files that I think doing it via p2p > is > >>>> making a relatively simple problem all of a sudden hard. > >>>> > >>>> That said, I'm sure you have a specific use-case in mind, or you > wouldn't > >>>> have asked =). > >>>> > >>>> -Adam > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Susheel Daswani <sdasw...@gmail.com> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> Does anyone know of any? > >>>>> Thanks! > >>>>> Susheel > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> p2p-hackers mailing list > >>>>> p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > >>>>> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Adam Fisk > >>>> http://www.littleshoot.org | http://adamfisk.wordpress.com | > >>>> http://twitter.com/adamfisk > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> p2p-hackers mailing list > >> p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > >> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > p2p-hackers mailing list > > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers >
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