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- sullyz0r, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2Eventually, Myspace and Facebook, no matter what fancy features they may add, will seem as archaic as Compuserve and Prodigy do now. The acceptance of a distributed social networking model is, as the internet has shown, an inevitability.
Truly insightful essay, and a very interesting program. - inactive, on 03/09/2008, -0/+1Sound the horn, smash the walls of jericho
- wildgift, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1I like the ideas, but, I think the appeal of these networks was partly that they made it easy to make a home page. You can map most of the social networking features to things people did on personal home pages, before. The advantage you gain from putting all the data on one database (one big virtual db) are things like easy link exchanges, maintaining a mailing list, searches on the profiles, ability to add security to profile, embedding media (and transcoding it), using web apps, and so forth.
Social networking software would have some interesting requirements, like, being able to send a link to someone, with the "banner ad" or "face", and have it show up into their site's "inbox". You might need a feature to create objects that encapsulate those "embed" html strings.... and also add metadata so these objects can "call home" and get updated. (Security issues abound.) The sites would need to federate with other sites for searching, forming groups, and so forth.
If you start to look at social networks with a hairy eyeball, you can look at it as millions of data entry clerks updating small websites. They get a stream of request in their inbox, and process them by putting each bit of data into the correct collection, and perhaps ordering the collections by hand. - o3fingers, on 03/04/2008, -0/+0Yeah, I look forward to this happening. And wildgift's right, but it does seem like the problems to be solved here are all manageable.
- dirkdougherty, on 02/27/2008, -0/+0Great article. I've been looking into helping a friend start a targeted social networking site. Members of this site would likely want to establish relationships with others in the targeted group as well as maintain relationships with existing networks of friends. The article lays out a good beginning to making this a reality.
- irenekaoru, on 02/22/2008, -0/+0Love the project, love the essay, love that you've bothered with such an immense undertaking.
- mchisari, on 02/23/2008, -0/+0
You might want to check out the Appleseed software, because it already accomplishes, in a distributed fashion, a lot of the things you're pointing out.
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