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.
>

Hi Christine, I think you pose a very valid question here.

>From looking at:

http://preibusch.de/publications/social_networks/privacy_jungle_dataset.htm

"Most social network users do express an interest in privacy"

"Between 17% and 30% of people would describe themselves as privacy
fundamentalists"


>
> 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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