diso & the open web
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The talk I gave at Open Web Vancouver in April 2008.TRANSCRIPT
DiSo & The Open Web
DiSo is an open, distributed social network
diso-project.org
Undertaken by Chris Messina, Steve Ivy, Will Norris, Stephen Paul Weber et al.
Background
Employment
Community Projects
Standards & Protocols
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Site-specific browsers
CivicSpaceA network of grassroots organizing sites
Spread FirefoxA vast collective of volunteer marketers
BarCampA decentralized community of unstructured event participants
FlockA browser for the distributed social web
CoworkingA loose network of shared workspaces
Spot the trend?
The Starfish and the SpiderThe Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Social networking routines...
Source: groundswell.forrester.com
Participating
Consuming
Adding friends
Inviting friends (anti-pattern)
Inviting friends (anti-pattern)
Inviting friends (the righter way!)
Sending messages within networks
Seeing what friends are up to
Deciding who can see and do what
Adding apps
Fighting app spam!
How we got here
All about the niches bitches!
bands
college students
professionals
Then niche sites traded focus to serve “everyone”:(
everyone!
everyone!
everyone! (who works)
System-centric design
System-centric value
Source: Le Monde
Source: Mick Hagen (mickhagen.com)
Users are not the same thing as customers!
From system-centric to citizen-centric
the web citizen
the web citizenhas ID
the web citizenhas provenance
the web citizenhas friends
the web citizenhas enemies
the web citizenhas agency
Components of the DiSo model
Activities
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People, friends & identity
Identity consolidation
Digg
Pownce
MyBlogLog
FriendFeed
Messaging & notifications
bacn!“Email you want, but not right now.”
Permissions
Basecamp
Plaxo Pulse
Flickr & Yahoo! Mash
Fire Eagle & Dopplr
Groupings
Viddler
barackobama.com
Upcoming
DiSo Technologies
ATOM + microformats
http://atomenabled.org/http://microformats.org/
XFN
• me
• contact
• acquaintance
• friend
• met
• co-worker
• colleague
• co-resident
• neighbor
• child
• parent
• sibling
• spouse
• kin
• muse
• crush
• date
• sweetheart
• me
• contact
• acquaintance
• friend
• met
• co-worker
• colleague
• co-resident
• neighbor
• child
• parent
• sibling
• spouse
• kin
• muse
• crush
• date
• sweetheart
rel-merel-contact
XMPP / Jabber
Status
• oauth
• wp-diso-actionstream
• wp-diso-contactlist
• wp-diso-profile
• wp-openid
• wp-xmpp
diso.googlecode.com
A note about design
DiSo & the Open Web
More
http://diso-project.org
http://groups.google.com/group/diso http://diso.googlecode.com http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/diso http://flickr.com/groups/disohttp://slideshare.net/group/diso
Me
http://factoryjoe.com
http://twitter.com/factoryjoehttp://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoehttp://citizenagency.com
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Neural network images by Mark Miller