Request for a decentralized social network
Yay! The videos from IgnitePortland are now on YouTube. This is my presentation, “Request for a Decentralized Social Network”. The basic concept is that with an identity layer, the blogosphere could be upgraded to have the features people value on social networks. People could still easily sign up to join (vs. installing a blog) on services like Wordpress.com or Blogger. The missing link is friend management. I want to be able to login one time, not on everyone’s site, and I want to be able to control the access a person has based on who they are. I think two pieces that could be leveraged to accomplish this are OpenID and XFN. I’ll put a more detailed post together explaining how I think these pieces could be used and some starting point standards for the open social network.
Good talk, Justin. I’m stoked on this idea.
From Roy Christopher on November 1st, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I’ve got a follow up post for an amazing group discussion I shared in yesterday. I think it comprises the foundational concepts needed to pull this idea off.
From Justin on November 3rd, 2007 at 5:25 am
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From Open Ideas Sharing » Blog Archive » Decentralized/Portable social network on November 11th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
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From Justin Kistner - Wordpress ecosystems at WordCamp Portland on September 24th, 2008 at 10:57 am