DiSo

Developing an open, distributed social network

diso-project.org

Undertaken by Chris Messina, Steve Ivy, Will Norris, Stephen Paul Weber et al.

background

CivicSpace → SpreadFirefox → Flock → Citizen Agency

BarCamp; Coworking

Microformats; OpenID; OAuth

social networking is NOT...

Source: butchgibson.org

Source: CoolMyspaceComments

Source: LayoutLounge

Source: Chris Messina

Source: Chris Messina

how it got this way...

Super-nichefication

college students

bands

professionals

etc...

Source: Darren Barefoot

System-centric design

Source: Le Monde

System-centric value

Source: Mick Hagen (mickhagen.com)

Hyper-valuations

users ≠ customers

users ≠ customersusers ≠ customers

users ≠ customersusers ≠ customersusers ≠ customers

from system-centric to citizen-centric

the web citizen

the web citizen has ID

the web citizen has provenance

the web citizen has friends

the web citizen has agency

aspects of distributed social network...

...a few benefits...

...a few challenges...

the components of a DiSo site

activities

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Digg, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, Jaiku

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people & friends+ identity

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messaging & notifications

permissions

basecamp

viddler

imeem

plaxo pulse

flickr / yahoo mash

groups, groupings& events

viddler

my.barackobama.com

upcoming

More on identity

identity consolidation & rel-me

pownce

digg

mybloglog

plaxo pulse

Technologies

OpenID

http://openid.net

Microformats

http://microformats.org

OAuth

http://oauth.net

XRDS-Simple

http://oauth.net

ATOM/APP

http://atomenabled.org

Jabber/XMPP

http://jabber.org

Current status

More

http://diso-project.org

http://groups.google.com/group/disohttp://diso.googlecode.comhttp://ma.gnolia.com/groups/disohttp://flickr.com/groups/diso/

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Neural network images by Mark Miller