[p2p-research] is this the open social graph we have been waiting for?

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > This looks promising: http://www.cliqset.com/, it says all social data
> > belong to the user and the system is built on that promise ...
>
> Characteristics of an 'open social graph' that I would start with:
>
> * users host something like lighttpd, a light-weight http daemon
> except for 'social data services', or some module to the apache web
> server, or something similar to this.
> * social networking occurs maybe via FOAF(?)
> * crawlers and other data mining services (third parties) can be
> allowed to access user data on web pages (etc.) or not (robots.txt
> exclusion rule)
>
> But for some reason everyone into "social networking" is into
> submitting their data to some central website, instead of the
> traditional method of submitting CNAME and MAIL-server records to DNS
> hosts. Just layers and layers of solving the same problem in different
> ways, if you ask me.
>
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507
>



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