What would be the common requirements of a "distributed Social Network" project
ineation
My name is Alexandre Eisenchteter (ineation) and I am working with a
bunch of people on some project related to distributed technologies
and social networks. I've just subscribed to the group after being a
silent observer.
I see that there are plenty of initiatives around the concept of
"distributed Social Network". Each with different approach to the
problem, which is good because diversity is good for innovation.
Many of these approaches are driven by technology (so we are at my
company). This is why I was wondering if we could take a user
perspective and identify what would be the common set of user
requirements (user stories?) that these projects should fulfill. I
guess it evolve around concept such as liberty, privacy, ownership.
But could we be more specific ? I guess this work may also have done
somewhere...
I also feel that many users (normal not geeks) do not perceived the
need for such technology. Which is key if we want users to use
alternatives to monopolistic platforms. In order to have better
insights, we have launched studies to better understand how normal web
user perceive privacy concerns and how they need and use personal data
portability. I would be pleased to share the results with this group,
as soon as we have some.
Vikrant Chaudhary
public in concept of "distributed social networking".
Many host their blogs at their own domain and server even when there
are great services like Blogger, Wordpress.com.
Normal users, they don't really care. They just follow the crowd (and
that's a good thing).
Christine Perey
there's a group of folks over in the W3C also working towards the
design/architecture of social network future. The group (of which I'm a
member) is called the Social Web Incubator Group. It started a year ago.
You can read a (perhaps) somewhat dusty mission statement (Incubator
group charter) page here: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/charter
I'm bringing this up because over the past year we've had a couple of
initiatives which focused on the topic of social web use cases. I think
the most current page (it's been through several iterations and I think
this is the most current/compiled version) is found here:
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/RequirementsAndUseCases-WorkArea
If you want to use the content/concepts of this page or its precursor
(http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/UserStories), they are
in the public domain and the SWXG would WELCOME all inputs and
activities to help us to bring them to the next stage of wide
acceptance/use.
To edit the wiki page on which the use cases and requirements appear one
must be a member of W3C or an invited expert. But, don't let that deter
you, the requirement for invited experts would certainly be met by
thought leaders and participants of the Diso project.
Please see more info about joining this incubator here:
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/#Joining
We also have a public mailing list. I'm cross posting this memo to the
SocialWeb XG list but I don't know if you can post to it before you are
a member or expert status. Anyway, there's a public archive here:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-socialweb/
Each week we have a conference call (on Wednesday). The conference calls
are generally 30 minutes of group activity and 30 minutes with guest
speaker/invited talk on a topic related to the Social Web and our charter.
To review minutes of our past meetings, please visit this page:
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/#Minutes
Chris Messina joined us to talk about ActivityStreams in December 2009.
See http://www.w3.org/2009/12/02-swxg-minutes.html
last week (March 3) we had Tim Berners-Lee sharing his thoughts with us.
http://www.w3.org/2010/03/03-swxg-minutes.html
I hope you'll accept this invitation to visit these pages and to let us
(the SWXG) know how the work to which I've directed you might be
advanced with the assistance of those on the Diso project.
Regards,
--
Christine
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