Not So Opened Social Networks
It looks like more and more people are waking up to the notion of Open Social Networks. I recommend you to read this latest article on Wired.
We have been advocating the need for a open decentralized Social Network for a long time. The opened extensible infrastructure of AllPeers is actually built so that anyone can extend the features of the current product to turn it into a fully fledge Social Network. Right now, AllPeers handles the trusted relationships between one user and his “friends” as well as the delivery of files he wants to share.
For us, an Open Social Network means:
* Fully grained control over identity, security and privacy
* Maintain full control and ownership over my data and information
* No limits for file sharing
* Much better granularity for all operations
* A single interface for multiple providers
* Single social graph with presence, multiprotocol chat, etc.
* Real-time alerts (no need to scour 10 different websites)
* Client-side mashups
* In the browser
* Extensibility on the edges
Can you think about other key characteristics?
And now it is time for our summer quizz (drum rolls): Of the 2 diagrams below, which one represents a Peer-to-Peer Network and which one represents a Social Network?
Figure 1:
Figure 2:
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Can OpenID + microformats be the solution?
Comment by jilm — 8/6/2007 @ 6:39 pm
have you reviewed http://www.zooped.com social network yet?
Comment by LIEEEEY — 8/6/2007 @ 6:49 pm
Jilm - it’s a bit more complex than that, but I believe that OpenID and microformats will be two important building blocks.
Comment by Matt — 8/6/2007 @ 10:41 pm