3. instead of having to navigate phone
lines from one computer to the
next, you could write programs as
though the net were just one
big cloud, where messages went
in at your computer and came out
at the destination one.
colleague
Tim Berners-Lee contact
4. Connections between
Computers -TCP/IP
and
Web Documents -HTTP
Somebody Else's Problem Field
7. My generation draws the Internet as a
cloud that connects everyone.
The younger generation experiences it as
oxygen that supports their digital lives.
The old generation sees this as a
poisonous gas that has leaked out of their
pipes, and they want to seal it up again
14. Social Graph API
Indexes public websites that are people
Shows the 'me' and 'friend' links between
them
Supports the open XFN and FOAF
standards
Uses the standard Google crawler
42. Of course you can’t ‘trust’ what
people tell you on the web
anymore than you can ‘trust’ what
people tell you on megaphones,
postcards or in restaurants.
met
co-worker
Douglas Adams muse
43. Working out the social politics
of who you can trust and why
is, quite literally, what a very
large part of our brain has
evolved to do.
met
co-worker
Douglas Adams muse
48. Further reading
Video version of this:
http://epeus.blogspot.com/2008/02/social-cloud.html
Social Graph API:
http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/
OpenSocial:
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
danah boyd on Social network history:
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
Douglas Adams on the web and trust:
http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html
XFN relationships:
http://gmpg.org/xfn/11
Tim Berners-Lee on web and global graph:
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215