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conferences in hour

The Conferences in question
d.Construct 2007
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BarCampBrighton
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The Wealth of Networks
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The Future of Webapps expo
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The Wealth of Networks - Boston

Future of Webapps Expo - London

Common themes
Social Network portability
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Social Graphing (data mining)
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Democratisation of Development
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Off-line and Mobile Applications
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The Roles of People and Machines
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The Culture of Education and Startups
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Social Network Portability
The Walled Garden which is Facebook
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Quechup invites
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End user licence agreement
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Practical Social Network Portability
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The Walled Garden
“you do know that Facebook is AOL 2.0, right?”
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If you want access to their big base of users, develop
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something in their proprietary language for their
people who live in their walled garden.
http://www.kottke.org/07/06/facebook-is-the-new-aol
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/1319459116/
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Quechup
Alas, unlike these legitimate sites, which I have never had this kind of
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concern with, Quechup essentially hijacked my e-mail contact list after I
naively signed up after receiving an invitation from a friend, and then a
couple of weeks later, unbeknownst to me solicited everyone claiming
that I had requested that the invite be sent out. This is absolutely
untrue.
What perturbed me most about this incident is that they ended their spam
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with this clause:
“You received this because Lorenzo! knows and agreed to invite you. You
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will only receive one invite from lorenzo. Quechup will not spam or sell
your email address - privacy policy. © Quechup 2007.”
- Lorenzo
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Small pieces loosely joined
“you should be able to use dopplr without logging in...”
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Lightweight Network Portability
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elea/209621649/

Lightweight Network Portability
Hcard+XFN for Social Network Portability
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http://tantek.com/presentations/2007/10/social-network-portability/
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RSS/ATOM for Mandatory Data Portability
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http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2007/03/mandatory_data_.html
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Firefox Operator addon
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http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4106/
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Midweight Network Portability
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotben/301122138/

Midweight Network Portability
FOAF for Social Network Portability
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http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2007/10/04/foaf_for_social_network_mig
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APML for Attention Data Portability
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http://www.particls.com/blog/2007/09/data-portability-user-rights-and-best.h
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Open ID for Single Sign-on
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http://www.wired.com/software/webservices/news/2007/08/open_soci
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al_net
O Auth for accessing Protected Data with Credentials
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http://oauth.net/about/
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Heavyweight Network Portability

Heavyweight Network Portability
Higgins
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http://eclipse.org/higgins
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Cloud Tripper
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http://www.cloudtripper.org/index.php/Main_Page
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Social Graphing (data mining)
Google
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Lifestreams
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Presence management
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Public Presence
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Intimacy
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Human Power Laws
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Google are up to something
Social Network Aggregator
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http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/08/18/GoogleWorkingOnS
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ocialNetworkAggregator.aspx
People Aggregator
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http://www.peopleaggregator.net
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Google bought Jaiku
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http://www.smartmobs.com/2007/10/09/google-jaiku/
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BarCampLondon3 at Google
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http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampLondon3
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Jaiku

Plaxo Pulse

Plaxo Pulse Groups
When you create a group, you declare it to be “private,”
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“moderated,” or “public.” “Public groups” are similar to
what you might be familiar with on Facebook, where
anyone can see the group and anyone can join

Facebook going public
One of the great features of Facebook was privacy. You
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could be assured that what was in Facebook remained
in Facebook. However, that illusion might be ending
soon.
Tonight, Facebook launches a “public listing search”
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which allows anyone to search for a specific person. The
company says that the information being revealed
through these listings is minimal and much less than the
information available to someone logged into the
Facebook network.
- http://gigaom.com/2007/09/05/facebook-open-to-public-search/
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Social Norms
You should own your social graph
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Privacy must be done right by placing control in your
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hands
It is good to be able to find out what is already public
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about you on the Internet
Everyone has many social graphs, and they shouldn't
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always be connected
Open technologies are the best way to solve these
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problems
http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2007/09/were_opening_th.html
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Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web
Ownership of their own personal information, including:
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their own profile data
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– the list of people they are connected to
– the activity stream of content they create;
Control of whether and how such personal information is
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shared with others; and
Freedom to grant persistent access to their personal
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information to trusted external sites
http://opensocialweb.org/
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Intimacy

Ambient Intimacy
Facebook status, Twitter, Last.fm, Flickr, Dopplr - gives
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us a huge amount of info about people
Continual Partial Friendship
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Designing for Ambient Intimacy
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1. Keep it lightweight
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2. stay out of the way
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3. open your API
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4. portable social networks
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5. use the periphery
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6. allow for time-shifting
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Power Law of Participation

More Power

We are still only Human

Not touched...
Communities
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Groups of people
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Dunbar number
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Reputation
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Identification
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Democratisation of Development
Demystifying mashups and programming
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New tools
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Adobe Thermo
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Microsoft Popfly
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Yahoo Pipes
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Intel Mashup maker
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RSS Bus
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Pronto
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Adobe Thermo

Off-line and Mobile applications
Offline
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Adobe Air
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– Google Gears
– XUL/Web Runner
Mobile
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Mobile application development
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Gphone operating system
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iphone hacking
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Open phones
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Virtual mobile operators
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Designing for Mobile

Everything you need for mobile coding
Markup
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div, span, p, br, b, small, form, input, select, option,
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textarea, table, tr, td, img, style, class
Style
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color, background-color, border, margin, padding,
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text-align, vertical-align, font-size
Tools
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Modify Headers, User Agent Switcher, WML Browser,
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XHTML Mobile Profile WURFL
(http://wurfl.sourceforge.net)
Mobile acid test (http://jwtmp.com/a)
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The World of the Mobile

The role of people
What is a designer?
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What is a developer?
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What is a user experience developer?
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The role of Information Technology
“IT does not matter” - Nicholas Carr
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http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/articles/matter.html

Utility Computing

Amazon Web Services
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/463416686/

The Culture of Education and Startups
http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html

The Culture of Education and Startups
If the best hackers start their own companies after
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college instead of getting jobs, that will change what
happens in college. Most of these changes will be for
the better. I think the experience of college is warped
in a bad way by the expectation that afterward you'll
be judged by potential employers.

The Culture of Education and Startups
One change will be in the meaning of \"after college,\"
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which will switch from when one graduates from college
to when one leaves it. If you're starting your own
company, why do you need a degree? We don't
encourage people to start startups during college,
but the best founders are certainly capable of it. Some
of the most successful companies we've funded
were started by undergrads.

The Culture of Education and Startups
I grew up in a time where college degrees seemed really
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important, so I'm alarmed to be saying things like this,
but there's nothing magical about a degree. There's
nothing that magically changes after you take that last
exam. The importance of degrees is due solely to the
administrative needs of large organizations. These
can certainly affect your life—it's hard to get into grad
school, or to get a work visa in the US, without an
undergraduate degree—but tests like this will matter less
and less.

The Culture of Education and Startups
As well as mattering less whether students get degrees,
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it will also start to matter less where they go to
college. In a startup you're judged by users, and they
don't care where you went to college. So in a world of
startups, elite universities will play less of a role as
gatekeepers. In the US it's a national scandal how
easily children of rich parents game college
admissions....

The Culture of Education and Startups
The greatest value of universities is not the brand name
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or perhaps even the classes so much as the people you
meet. If it becomes common to start a startup after
college, students may start trying to maximize this.
Instead of focusing on getting internships at
companies they want to work for, they may start to
focus on working with other students they want as
cofounders.

The Culture of Education and Startups
What students do in their classes will change too.
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Instead of trying to get good grades to impress
future employers, students will try to learn things.
We're talking about some pretty dramatic changes here.

Thank you
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