Re: The Venn of Social

Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> One of my heroes, as an undergraduate, was John Venn.  He studied
> mathematics at my college, there was a big stain glass window honoring him
> overlooking our dining area.
> 
> Given the increasing number of protocols in recent times I thought it might
> be an idea to make a kind of visual representation, "The Venn of Social",
> partly also inspired by kaliya's venn of identity.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/community/rww/wiki/images/9/94/Vennofsocial.png
> 
> I think there's two main world view in the social web.
> 
> 1. Email style Identifiers
> 2. HTTP style Identifiers
> 
> And I've tried to put some ideas at the intersection, in particular the
> read write web, and michiel's promising 'polyglot' approach of
> useraddress.net
> 
> I've tried to be representative of the more modern initiatives, please let
> me know if there's anything you feel that it would be useful to add
> 

If you zoom out a little bit it's all just a subset of URI / web 
addresses - the only reason I mention, is because RWW may well not be at 
the intersection, but rather be the thing encompassing all.

Received on Thursday, 27 September 2012 15:30:38 UTC