Re: What we need in a next-gen social network

> I've looked at pangia a few times before, and I like the concepts.
>
> Content addressed identifiers can work really well as part of a strategy,
> we've seen this many times with things like git, bitcoin to name a couple
> ...

Yes, and see also the concept of WikiWord addressing of the original
WikiWikiWeb (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb).  If you explore the
page on WikiWord's you'll see how it can form a rather nice addressing
scheme.

> I'm intruiged by: "Leap-frogging over RDF, we'll be using the power of the
> visual cortex to make relationships instead. Killer"

Did you see the screenshot?  Unfortunately, the screenshot is using
only random data.  But if it were organized information, for example,
your file system, you'd see a fractal cloud of files centered on your
/root directory.

> Regarding "self determined storage" I'm unsure this is a complete solution.
> ie who decides where things are stored, the user, or the developer of the
> system, it seems to me slightly more leaning towards the latter, at this
> point in time.

Have you investigated Freenet?  See http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html

It's completely controlled by the user.  However, like all things
"internet", as soon as you publish something, you necessarily lose
*some* control.

-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington

Received on Monday, 25 November 2013 21:30:50 UTC