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Beyond the walled garden of twitface

Thu, 29/07/2010 - 04:56 — dan

Having just committed social e-suicide and left twitface for a time, the first thought that struck me was, "wow - facebook/twitter really have a monopoly, don't they? That's quite scary. Social interaction, surely, should be built into the fabric of the internet!"

Turns out, of course, it's not just me thinking that. On the very same jolly day, here's a slashdot story on just that - attempts to make open standards for web-based social interaction. Damn straight.

Comments

Thu, 03/02/2011 - 11:09 — Michal Polak (not verified)

Diaspora

Hi, have you heard of this project?

https://joindiaspora.com/

Also an open-source, user-controlled environment, with no collection of data for marketing purposes. Still in its infancy, but worth watching, I think.

Thu, 03/02/2011 - 16:36 — dan

Open social

Hey up,

I've heard of it but haven't been following it. I've noticed also some pushes for e.g.

http://opensocialweb.org/

Note the links on the right too. I like this more: it would mean that our own social data could be stored where we liked, and collated in any way code allows, as is the case currently with RSS, but with personal control over privacy settings. Given how massive facebook is, I really hope the future has something as fundamental as HTML for social interaction. I mean, look what's happening in Egypt too (though also, I see, Google seem to have been helping people get round the net block...)

Interesting times!

Thu, 03/02/2011 - 16:37 — dan

Ha - I failed to read my own

Ha - I failed to read my own post; slashdot had a story on it already!