Re: [foaf-dev] A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging

From: Kaliya <kaliya@mac.com> · Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:28:51 -0800

On Mar 7, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

> Story Henry wrote:
>> Jeff Sayre has a really interesting article here that covers the  
>> topics
>> of decentralised social networks and microblogging.
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>> http://jeffsayre.com/2010/02/24/a-flock-of-twitters-decentralized-semantic-microblogging/
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>> Now we need to find a way to make a video of this, and reduce it  
>> down to 5 minutes.
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>> 	Henry
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>> Social Web Architect
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> Henry,
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> We also need to finalize an online interaction that encourages  
> people to attain webids. Twitter is a major vector space for such a  
> pattern, we just need to iron out what the teaser would be. For  
> instance, it could be something that everyone would like to see, but  
> the only they can see it is if they have verifiable identity etc..

what is "verifiable identity"?

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> So rather than the typical: Come join Yet Another Social Network  
> (YASN), it would be closer to the Cheese Club pattern or shared  
> Pictures project.  Another pattern, which worked, but for some  
> reason vanished was the GGG post by TimBL where the comments section  
> required you to have verifiable identity (this was before FOAF+SSL  
> time). I think a GGG post update or something similar would  
> certainly act as vector for webid generation etc..

what is GGG?

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