Archive for May, 2009
After the Last.FM debacle: federated servers the future of social networks?
Posted on May 26, 2009. Filed under: social networks, user data | Tags: Twitter, Wordpress, last.fm, CBS, personal data, identi.ca, federated servers, server federation |
Given the Last.FM debacle and seeing Twitter disabling cruical features, on the other hand WordPress allowing users to have an account at either wordpress.com or at any other wordpress site and still be able to maintain a unique identity across all those servers, and identi.ca mimicking this model, I wonder whether the future of social [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The benefit of the web? — Make friends.
Posted on May 10, 2009. Filed under: community, digital privacy, friends, life, net culture, social graph, social web | Tags: bells and whistles, benefit, commercializable, community, CouchSurfing, data loss, friends, geographical restrictions, identity theft, interests, neighbourhood, social sites, to serve the community, to serve the members |
([You're here: is.gd/yEjn]) What’s the benefit of the web? — Previously, I’d have said: the info you get. But now I’d say: to make friends. Naturally you’d pick friends in your neighbourhood where you daily pass along, but the web is good to bring together people who’d never met in real life, just because of [...]
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