Re: On privacy and cloud services

Well I am just trying to learn about the federated social web, I am
actually going to start my own
web mag about it. I was already going to do it, but esp in light of this
recent PRISM finding, I am
definitely going to do it now. BTW, I have a great name for it, which i
will reveal when I buy the last
domain for it. It is a great name, if i do say so myself, in tribute to the
early predecessors of four-letter
site names like word.com and esp the ironical or more edgy names like
fray.com.
I am also changing my meetup here in Houston from one dealing with Twitter
Bootstrap, which frankly never went
anywhere, to one centering on the Federated Social Web Space.
But my question, is aren't current developments like Diaspora* and
Friendica and their Red network
products that are going in this direction?
Though, don't get me wrong, I realize that the concept of private phone
calls or messaging seems remote.
Also, could someone point me to either books or sites that deal with the
overall concepts and technologies involved in federation?
Thanks for any help.
Daniel Smith
Houston


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak <rysiek@fwioo.pl>wrote:

> Dnia wtorek, 11 czerwca 2013 o 08:49:09 Goix Laurent Walter napisał(a):
> > Le 11 juin 2013 Ă  03:21, "Evan Prodromou" <evan@e14n.com> a ĂŠcrit :
> > > On 13-06-10 05:27 AM, Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak wrote:
> > >> <rant> I am just afraid that we do not have anything to offer instead
> > >> of the centralised, surveilled services. All we have is a myriad of
> > >> incompatible protocols. </rant>
> > >
> > > Setting up a social server for your family and friends on a server you
> > > control is a step in the right direction.
> >
> > +1. Unfortunately i was never able to get my parents one installed on
> their
> > own... Even Friendica that has a preconfigured vm is not easy enough. I
> > understand there is no technical challenge here protocol-wise but in
> terms
> > of user adoption that's a big hurdle. Is anyone working in that direction
> > and/or of a simple windows app?
>
> The work is being done on the next step, the totally de-centralised "social
> networks" look-alikes:
> http://sneer.me/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroshare
>
> These are, as I stated before, the future IMVHO, but they are still far
> from
> being useful and usable enough.
>
> --
> Pozdrawiam
> Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
>
> Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania
>