On Mar 2010 06:13:02 -0700 M, Carlo von Loesch wrote:
The web needs special requirements in order to support private data,
and the web has no concept of the web of trust it takes to figure
out how much of a person's data should be made available to this or
that person requesting it.
Over in the Identity Community we have been thinking about this and
trying to answer it for a while. I think we do have open standards to
do this.
On Mar 27, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Carlo von Loesch wrote:
We already have StatusNet, Crabgrass, Elgg and Pinax. Even if these
projects reach the usability of Facebook, it would still be something
isolated groups use unless worldwide decentralized scalability is
really
feasible. No? Yes?
Without the "web" aspect, and I mean the decentralized network, it
ain't got that swing.
I completely agree.
A cluster of folks are working on the development of personal data
stores (user data banks)
Paul Trevithick who has been actively building Open Source Libraries
and Tools in this ecology for years. Most of it is in the Higgins
Project under the Eclipse umbrella.
He recently wrote this post about what is emerging interims of a model
for USER-owned/controlled/managed personal data/information
including friending data, preferences etc. All the stuff you have on
a social network today.
Creating the ability to do peer-to-peer friending (outside of any
commercial silo like facebook, mySpace, Twitter).
Creating the ability for people to have a relationship with the
vendors they do business with that they would like to share
information with (this is the VRM concept - vendor relationship
management as a corollary to customer relationship management)
Creating the ability for people to have relationships - connections to
the organizations and groups of people they want to connect to. This
could be "formal nonprofits" or just a local group of knitters.
http://www.incontextblog.com/?p=504
To make this vision a success there needs to be tools and libraries
and pluggin's for all the major open source social platforms.
I just found out about this list and trying to find out as much as
possible about what you are up to. I would really like to see how to
bridge between the emerging efforts that are thinking along these lines.
To me this is not about one kind of player winning or dominating but a
diversity of interests coming together and making sure that the end-
user/person is in the center of what is built and their interests are
protected - made center.
-Kaliya
