Diaspora #NewHere
Joined Diaspora 3 months ago (#62659). Now there are more than 150,000 saying: #NewHere Join! http://eicker.at/DiasporaNewHere
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Gerrit Eicker
Social Freedom
The Diaspora Project, a fun and creative community for social freedom; http://eicker.at/SocialFreedom
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Gerrit Eicker
Diaspora: “We are happy to announce that DiasporaFoundation.org is now live. DiasporaFoundation.org will be the home of the Diaspora* project, a place where our community can share information, learn about cool new features, and information about where they can get an account. – This new blog replaces blog.joindiaspora.com (WordPress FTW), and will be updated with news from the community and announcements from the core team.”
Diaspora: “Social freedom. – Ever wanted to to share something with just a certain group of people? Diaspora* pioneered Aspects, the original system for sharing things with just the people you want. Of course, you can still tell the whole world too, if you want to. – Diaspora* lets you stay connected with your friends, even if they’re not on Diaspora* yet. Simply connect your account to other major services, then use Diaspora* as your home base to post to your profiles on these other services too. Diaspora* currently supports cross-posting to your Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr accounts, with more to come soon. … Own your data – Now you don’t have to settle for having your data on someone else’s server. Since Diaspora is completely free software, you can grab the code and host it wherever you want. We’re constantly making it easier for individuals to host their own pods on Diaspora*. – Coming soon: Download all of your data in standard formats that can be used in other places. – Get started on a community pod and then move all of your social data to a pod you control. Diaspora*’s distributed design means that you will never have to sacrifice control of your data to stay connected.”
Diaspora: “Join the movement. – The future of the social web starts with you. – Diaspora* is already in the top 2% of all open source projects ever. The codebase has received over 800 forks, over 5000 followers on GitHub, and over 300 Grassroots Volunteers… Open source is about individuality, transparency, creativity, and destiny. It is about having an idea, and making it reality. Diaspora* was founded to fulfill a passion for fun, and for making the Internet a better place. Open source is what enables us to change the world, for ourselves, and let our friends across the web benefit from our exploration. … We all make Diaspora*. We might not know you just yet, but we think you’d be a great fit for building the future of the web. You’re fantastic, and you’re ready to change the world. Contributing to Diaspora* comes in all different shapes and sizes. Whether you’re a user helping us find bugs, providing feedback on our mailing lists, or contributing code or design, we need you.”
Diaspora: “Roadmap – These are things that are in our plan, but haven’t yet come to the front of the priority queue. If you’re looking for a feature to implement, and any of these strike your fancy, come talk to us in IRC first. We may have thoughts about how we want these implemented, and we can help you get started…
- Data portability: allow people to Oauth to a new seed and move their entire account to the new seed, and then notify all of their contacts of the change, so people can move around seamlessly.
- Twitter-style API for posting and searching public posts.
- Services integration: attach services to particular aspects.
- Server to server authentication: Right now Diaspora is push-only. We need servers to authenticate with each other to pull data in.
- Refining aspects – having people only in the public group, a Twitter-style follow model, etc.
- More standards compliance: for instance, we have a salmon implementation, but it’s not tested against the spec yet. It should be made compliant with the salmon spec.
- Events
- Photo tagging
- Mentions and tags should work in comments and captions.
- Software Update Framework for folks running their own pod.
- An administrator interface that would do the entire update automatically, like the way WordPress can be updated through its admin interface.”
Diaspora: “We’re building the future we want to see – a new social web that keeps you in control of your data, giving you the freedom to do what you want and have fun. We’re a tiny core team of developers working our tails off, and we’re also a huge community effort, with more than 150 people having contributed code to our open-source software, hundreds of others engaged in community organizing and spreading the word, and thousands of people providing feedback and financial support. We can’t do this without you. Please give what you can. Thank you.“
Gerrit Eicker
Facebook: Our Singular Login?
Has Facebook already won the digital identity war? And, how portable are our digital identities? http://eicker.at/SingularLogin
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Data and Predictive Analytics
O’Reilly: Calculus of data, predictive analytics, and why mobile sensors are central to the future and 2011; http://eicker.at/1x
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Facebook Privacy VI.
Bizannes: Why privacy failures are in the DNA of Facebook; http://j.mp/946a9j
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URL Shorteners: Revenue Anyone?
URL shorteners stay in high demand, while their business models keep revenue as a low priority; http://j.mp/9ZtWz2
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The Facebook TOS: Open Developement?
The Facebook TOS: now opened up for user input. Zuckerberg: “We do not own user data“; http://tr.im/gPEp
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Zuckerberg: “We do not own user data, they own their data. We never intended to give that impression and we feel bad that we did.”
Mashable: “Between the publishing of new rights and responsibilities and a commitment to keep users informed of changes to its Terms of Service, it’s clear Facebook has listened to users, and is going above and beyond to try and convince them that a similar situation won’t happen again. Now the ball is in their court to deliver on these promises.””
RWW: “Facebook said today that policy changes in the future will be voted on if they stir up enough comments to warrant it. There is no clear public standard for what will be voted on, no details about how the voting will work, etc. Perhaps more important, voting about changes to Facebook may not always be a good idea. … One of the questions asked during the press phone call today concerned privacy laws. How would Facebook deal with different privacy laws in different locations? The company said they would follow whatever laws were in place where a user lived. On the face of it that might not sound so bad, but in practice a promise to always follow the law is in direct contradiction with the company’s goals of changing the world. … Mark Zuckerberg is a young man at the helm of a huge company, touching hundreds of millions of lives all over the world, at a time of dramatic social upheaval caused in large part by the kind of technology he is helping create. That’s no small job. We hope he can pull it off.”
ST: “After a huge revolt from its users over a naked user content grab, Facebook is now instituting a supposed ‘open, transparent, and democratic’ set of Terms of Service. – Nothing could be more fake, more closed, more manipulative – and ultimately more authoritarian – than what they are calling ‘democracy’. It’s a loopy geek’s idea of democracy incorporating various utopian ideals they have absorbed here and there from the extremist left (and right!) ideologues they seem most exposed to on the Internet – and hopefully it will sink of its own weight and/or be overthrown.”
Gerrit Eicker
Data Portability: Opinions and Predictions
RWW-readers opinions and predictions regarding data portability’s future: http://tinyurl.com/58xe5o
Gerrit Eicker 08:42 on 5. November 2011 Permalink |
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