The DiSo Project

Chris Messina TransparencyCamp

March 1, 2009Washington, DC

diso-project.org

“Low hills closed in on either side as the train eventually crawled on to high, tabletop grasslands creased with snow. Birds flew at window level. I could see lakes of an unreal cobalt blue to the north. The train pulled into a sprawling rail yard: the Kazakh side of the Kazakhstan-China border.

. . .

“Workers unhitched the cars, lifted them, one by one, ten feet high with giant jacks, and replaced the wide-gauge Russian undercarriages with narrower ones for the Chinese tracks. Russian gauges, still in use throughout the former Soviet Union, are wider than the world standard. The idea was to the prevent invaders from entering Russia by train. The changeover took hours.”

— Robert D. Kaplan, The Ends of the Earth

☭

“Data is the new Intel Inside.”

Photo credit: Adam Tinworth

VS

VS

VS

The Open Web

the battle for the future of the social web has begun

Service-centric architecture

Service-centric value

Source: Mick Hagen (mickhagen.com)

Source: Le Monde

Citizen-centric architecture

the web citizen has agency

Identity

zachklein.com

Access & Authorization

Basecamp

Plaxo Pulse (importing Flickr)

Fire Eagle & Dopplr

Brightkite

Discovery

c:\

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xrds:XRDS xmlns:xrds="xri://$xrds" xmlns="xri://$xrd*($v*2.0)" xmlns:simple="http://xrds-simple.net/core/1.0" xmlns:openid="http://openid.net/xmlns/1.0"> <XRD xml:id="main" version="2.0"> <Type>xri://$xrds*simple</Type>

<!-- OpenID Consumer Service --> <Service priority="10"> <Type>http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/return_to</Type> <URI>http://willnorris.com/wordpress/wp-admin/users.php</URI> <URI>http://willnorris.com/wordpress/wp-admin/profile.php</URI> <URI>http://willnorris.com</URI> <URI>https://willnorris.com/wordpress/wp-login.php</URI> </Service>

<!-- Identity in the Browser Login Service --> <Service priority="10"> <Type>http://specs.openid.net/idib/1.0/login</Type> <URI simple:httpMethod="POST">https://willnorris.com/wordpress/wp-login.php</URI> </Service>

<!-- Identity in the Browser Indicator Service --> <Service priority="10"> <Type>http://specs.openid.net/idib/1.0/indicator</Type> <URI>http://willnorris.com/wordpress/?openid_check_login</URI> </Service>

<!-- Email Address to URL Transformation Mapper --> <Service priority="10"> <Type>http://specs.eaut.org/1.0/mapping</Type> <URI>http://willnorris.com/wordpress/?eaut_mapper=1</URI> </Service>

<!-- OpenID Provider Service (0) --> <Service priority="0"> <Type>http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/signon</Type> <Type>http://openid.net/extensions/sreg/1.1</Type> <Type>http://openid.net/sreg/1.0</Type> <URI>http://willnorris.com/wordpress/?openid_server=1</URI> <LocalID>http://willnorris.com/author/will/</LocalID> </Service>

<!-- OpenID Provider Service (1) --> <Service priority="1"> <Type>http://openid.net/signon/1.1</Type> <Type>http://openid.net/extensions/sreg/1.1</Type> <Type>http://openid.net/sreg/1.0</Type> <URI>http://willnorris.com/wordpress/?openid_server=1</URI> <openid:Delegate>http://willnorris.com/author/will/</openid:Delegate> </Service>

<!-- AtomPub Service --> <Service priority="10"> <Type>http://www.w3.org/2007/app</Type> <MediaType>application/atomsvc+xml</MediaType> <URI>http://willnorris.com/wordpress/wp-app.php/service</URI> </Service>

<!-- Portable Contacts Service --> <Service priority="1"> <Type>http://portablecontacts.net/spec/1.0</Type> <URI>http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/pdata/contacts</URI> </Service>

</XRD></xrds:XRDS>

Contacts

Activities

FriendFeed

Last.fm

Sweetcron

Facebook

FriendFeed

Anatomy of an activity

Actor verb object [context]

factoryjoe tweeted Niches Bitches! [via SMS]

Actor verb object {indirect object} [context]

Chris bought Planet Earth {for Brynn} [at Amazon.com]

“Open Stack”

the open stack is a series of building blocksfor enabling cross-site social networking

using non-proprietary formats and protocols

Joseph Smarr (Plaxo)

fin.

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