Re: State of Social Web Update

On 29 June 2010 14:50, Christine Perey <cperey@perey.com> wrote:

> hi Harry,
>
> I would like to put into question the second half of the first statement in
> this section of the final report. In particular my concern is with the
> reason the document attributes to a "surge" in interest in Social Web (I
> could even question if there is a surge of interest outside the academic
> community, but I will abstain from that for the moment).
>
> The sentence finishes...
> fueled largely by the discontent with existing social networking sites's
> terms-of-service as regards the privacy of data.
>
> I believe that this is over emphasizing a hot topic in the blogosphere but
> if you were to ask a dozen people on the street, you would not find them
> overly concerned.
>

Some stats on this:

http://www.socialtimes.com/2010/07/study-half-of-us-care-about-social-network-and-geolocation-privacy-but-what-are-we-doing-about-it/

*Two separate studies were conducted this week that suggest that social
network and geolocation users are torn right down the middle when it comes
to issues of privacy. Both studies showed that for about half of the
respondents, privacy is their number one concern.
*


>
> I don't want to cast doubt as to if this is somewhere on the list of
> reasons. Yes, privacy is on the list. It is ONE of many "constraints"
> imposed (or "liberties on the part of platform providers) which users
> (members of communities) could be feeling.
>
> Others, some of which you elude to later in the paragraph, could be found
> here:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/SocialWebFrameworks2#Social_Graph_Management_Today
>
> Regards,
>
>
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> On 6/29/2010 1:26 PM, Harry Halpin wrote:
>
>> I've added this wiki-page with some notes (lots still to do!) on the
>> state of the social web in 2010.
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/StateOfSocialWeb
>>
>> Feel free to give it a read, edit, and hack away!
>>
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