The DiSo Project
Chris Messina March 1, 2009
TransparencyCamp Washington, DC

diso-project.org

“Low hills closed in on either side as the
train eventually crawled on to high,
tabletop grasslands creased with snow.
Birds flew at window level. I could see
lakes of an unreal cobalt blue to the north.
The train pulled into a sprawling rail
yard: the Kazakh side of the Kazakhstan-
China border.
...

“Workers unhitched the cars, lifted them,
one by one, ten feet high with giant jacks,
and replaced the wide-gauge Russian
undercarriages with narrower ones for
the Chinese tracks. Russian gauges, still
in use throughout the former Soviet
Union, are wider than the world standard.
The idea was to the prevent invaders from
entering Russia by train. The changeover
took hours.”
— Robert D. Kaplan, The Ends of the Earth

☭

“Data is the new Intel Inside.”
Photo credit: Adam Tinworth

VS

VS
VS
The Open Web

the battle for the future of the social web has begun

Service-centric
architecture

Service-centric
value

Source: Mick Hagen (mickhagen.com)

Source: Le Monde

Citizen-centric
architecture

the web citizen has agency

Identity

zachklein.com

Access &
Authorization

Basecamp

Plaxo Pulse (importing Flickr)

Fire Eagle & Dopplr

Brightkite

Discovery

c:\\

<!-- Email Address to URL Transformation Mapper -->
<Service priority=\"10\">
<Type>http://specs.eaut.org/1.0/mapping</Type>
<URI>http://willnorris.com/wordpress/?eaut_mapper=1</URI>
</Service>
<!-- OpenID Provider Service (0) -->
<Service priority=\"0\">
<Type>http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/signon</Type>
<Type>http://openid.net/extensions/sreg/1.1</Type>
<Type>http://openid.net/sreg/1.0</Type>
<URI>http://willnorris.com/wordpress/?openid_server=1</URI>
<LocalID>http://willnorris.com/author/will/</LocalID>
</Service>
<!-- OpenID Provider Service (1) -->
<Service priority=\"1\">
<Type>http://openid.net/signon/1.1</Type>
<Type>http://openid.net/extensions/sreg/1.1</Type>
<Type>http://openid.net/sreg/1.0</Type>
<URI>http://willnorris.com/wordpress/?openid_server=1</URI>
<openid:Delegate>http://willnorris.com/author/will/</openid:Delegate>
</Service>
<!-- AtomPub Service -->
<Service priority=\"10\">
<Type>http://www.w3.org/2007/app</Type>
<MediaType>application/atomsvc+xml</MediaType>
<URI>http://willnorris.com/wordpress/wp-app.php/service</URI>
</Service>
<!-- Portable Contacts Service -->
<Service priority=\"1\">
<Type>http://portablecontacts.net/spec/1.0</Type>
<URI>http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/pdata/contacts</URI>
</Service>
</XRD>
</xrds:XRDS>

Contacts

Activities

FriendFeed

Last.fm

Sweetcron

Facebook

FriendFeed

Anatomy of an activity

Actor verb object [context]

factoryjoe tweeted Niches Bitches! [via SMS]

Actor verb object {indirect object} [context]

Chris bought Planet Earth {for Brynn} [at Amazon.com]

“Open Stack”

the open stack is a series of building blocks
for enabling cross-site social networking
using non-proprietary formats and protocols

Joseph Smarr (Plaxo)

fin.
me -› factoryjoe.com -› @chrismessina
Dave -› davidrecordon.com -› @daveman692