The document discusses the evolution of social technologies on the open web. It describes key concepts like identity, profiles, connections between users, and tracking of user activities. It discusses how technologies like OpenID allow persistence of user identities across sites. Activity theory is referenced as a way to understand how goals are achieved through social interactions online. The document advocates for open standards and interoperability to build a more distributed social web that mirrors real-world connections.
A socio-cultural perspective of creativity for the design of educational envi...eLearning Papers
Authors: Françoise Decortis,Laura Lentini.
Creativity has long been a topic of interest and a subject of study for psychologists, who analyse it from several perspectives. From the cognitive perspective, researchers attempt to identity the specific processes and structures which contribute to creative acts, whilst from the socio-cultural perspective they try to demonstrate that artistic innovations emerge from joint thinking and exchanges among people. According to the latter, creativity indeed does not happen only inside our heads: the interaction between people's thoughts and a socio-cultural context is fundamental.
This is a new model for delegation based in chaos theory that uses the concepts of reciprocity and mathematical recursion to explain its practical application.
A socio-cultural perspective of creativity for the design of educational envi...eLearning Papers
Authors: Françoise Decortis,Laura Lentini.
Creativity has long been a topic of interest and a subject of study for psychologists, who analyse it from several perspectives. From the cognitive perspective, researchers attempt to identity the specific processes and structures which contribute to creative acts, whilst from the socio-cultural perspective they try to demonstrate that artistic innovations emerge from joint thinking and exchanges among people. According to the latter, creativity indeed does not happen only inside our heads: the interaction between people's thoughts and a socio-cultural context is fundamental.
This is a new model for delegation based in chaos theory that uses the concepts of reciprocity and mathematical recursion to explain its practical application.
Agent-Based Modeling for Sociologists is a crash course on how to build ABM in the social sciences. This presentation has an introduction to OOP and then discusses three models in details, along with their NetLogo implementation
Learning with technology as coordinated sociomaterial practice: digital liter...Martin Oliver
While considerable attention has been given to the concept of learning – what it is, how we might know it when we see it, and how to intervene in it – by contrast, technology remains under-theorised. While theoretical approaches that have developed accounts of the relationship between technology and human action, few of these are well represented within educational technology or networked learning. This paucity of theorisation has resulted in simplistic accounts of the role of technology in various kinds of learning, usually involving some kind of causal or determining mechanism. Such accounts are vulnerable to critique (e.g. Friesen, 2009), but nonetheless remain prevalent.
In this paper, I will recap some of the problems with this position, and then consider alternatives that address issues around agency and the role of the social. Specifically, drawing on Mol’s concept of praxiology, developed in the context of work on the constitution of diseases in medical practice, I will explore alternative ways in which educational uses of technology can be understood. This value of this will be illustrated through the design of a study of digital literacies. Some implications of this include for researchers – including concerns about reflexivity – will then be drawn out.
Modeling knowledge co-creation games as activity systems (ISAGA 2014)Otso Hannula
A presentation given at 18th international IFIP Workshop on Experimental Interactive Learning in Industrial Management in conjunction with International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference in July 2014.
2012.03 social neuroscience for investigating social interaction in entrepris...Thierry Nabeth
Paper associated to the presentation at the:
The 5th International Doctoral Consortium on Intellectual Capital Management
May 30, 2012
Organised by
The European Chair On Intellectual Capital Management
Faculté Jean Monnet, University Paris-Sud,
54 Bd Desgranges , 92330 Sceaux
Note:
As of now, the proposed experimentations are just suggested ideas.
Facilitating Communities of Practice in the Network EraNancy Wright White
This is the set of slides used for the morning workshop on facilitating communities, along with two other sets of slides that might be useful later to participants, but which we did not conver/talk about. So be forewarned!
Objective This question is designed to help you contextualize.docxAKHIL969626
Objective:
This question is designed to help you contextualize your final project. You may be able to use material you develop here in your final project.
Background:
Please begin this exercise by reading the following information carefully.
Organizational Culture Theory is based on a metaphor— a creative device to make meaning by comparing two disparate ideas or things. This theory relies on a field of study known as ethnography, which uses qualitative methodologies of investigation. Ethnography involves observations of customs and culture. The researcher becomes part of the organization to systematically observe, analyze, and interpret artifacts, stories, rituals, and practices in order to gain insight into its culture. An ethnographer of communication examines how communication is used to build the shared beliefs and value systems that sustain a specific social structure (Baillet, 2009).
Ethnographic study of organizations shows members act out something researchers call communicative performances, a metaphor suggesting organizational life is like the theater (Tracy, 2009). Members of an organization bond through specific types of “performances” that help them create and maintain a shared sense of reality. Different organizations have different organizational realities. Because of this, the actions performed by the members of an organization are interpreted differently depending on the organization.
Activity:
To get a sense of the role organizational culture may be playing in the communication problem you are investigating for your final project, review the definitions of the following terms in our course materials and then describe an example of as many of them as you can from your workplace:*
Physical symbols
Behavioral symbols
Verbal symbols
and
Ritual performances
Passion performances
Social performances
Political performances
Enculturation performances
Complete your response by analyzing and explaining how your workplace’s culture affects your organization’s communication processes or information flows. Could that culture be contributing to the communication problem you are investigating?
.
OntoSOC: S ociocultural K nowledge O ntology IJwest
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Agent-Based Modeling for Sociologists is a crash course on how to build ABM in the social sciences. This presentation has an introduction to OOP and then discusses three models in details, along with their NetLogo implementation
Learning with technology as coordinated sociomaterial practice: digital liter...Martin Oliver
While considerable attention has been given to the concept of learning – what it is, how we might know it when we see it, and how to intervene in it – by contrast, technology remains under-theorised. While theoretical approaches that have developed accounts of the relationship between technology and human action, few of these are well represented within educational technology or networked learning. This paucity of theorisation has resulted in simplistic accounts of the role of technology in various kinds of learning, usually involving some kind of causal or determining mechanism. Such accounts are vulnerable to critique (e.g. Friesen, 2009), but nonetheless remain prevalent.
In this paper, I will recap some of the problems with this position, and then consider alternatives that address issues around agency and the role of the social. Specifically, drawing on Mol’s concept of praxiology, developed in the context of work on the constitution of diseases in medical practice, I will explore alternative ways in which educational uses of technology can be understood. This value of this will be illustrated through the design of a study of digital literacies. Some implications of this include for researchers – including concerns about reflexivity – will then be drawn out.
Modeling knowledge co-creation games as activity systems (ISAGA 2014)Otso Hannula
A presentation given at 18th international IFIP Workshop on Experimental Interactive Learning in Industrial Management in conjunction with International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference in July 2014.
2012.03 social neuroscience for investigating social interaction in entrepris...Thierry Nabeth
Paper associated to the presentation at the:
The 5th International Doctoral Consortium on Intellectual Capital Management
May 30, 2012
Organised by
The European Chair On Intellectual Capital Management
Faculté Jean Monnet, University Paris-Sud,
54 Bd Desgranges , 92330 Sceaux
Note:
As of now, the proposed experimentations are just suggested ideas.
Facilitating Communities of Practice in the Network EraNancy Wright White
This is the set of slides used for the morning workshop on facilitating communities, along with two other sets of slides that might be useful later to participants, but which we did not conver/talk about. So be forewarned!
Objective This question is designed to help you contextualize.docxAKHIL969626
Objective:
This question is designed to help you contextualize your final project. You may be able to use material you develop here in your final project.
Background:
Please begin this exercise by reading the following information carefully.
Organizational Culture Theory is based on a metaphor— a creative device to make meaning by comparing two disparate ideas or things. This theory relies on a field of study known as ethnography, which uses qualitative methodologies of investigation. Ethnography involves observations of customs and culture. The researcher becomes part of the organization to systematically observe, analyze, and interpret artifacts, stories, rituals, and practices in order to gain insight into its culture. An ethnographer of communication examines how communication is used to build the shared beliefs and value systems that sustain a specific social structure (Baillet, 2009).
Ethnographic study of organizations shows members act out something researchers call communicative performances, a metaphor suggesting organizational life is like the theater (Tracy, 2009). Members of an organization bond through specific types of “performances” that help them create and maintain a shared sense of reality. Different organizations have different organizational realities. Because of this, the actions performed by the members of an organization are interpreted differently depending on the organization.
Activity:
To get a sense of the role organizational culture may be playing in the communication problem you are investigating for your final project, review the definitions of the following terms in our course materials and then describe an example of as many of them as you can from your workplace:*
Physical symbols
Behavioral symbols
Verbal symbols
and
Ritual performances
Passion performances
Social performances
Political performances
Enculturation performances
Complete your response by analyzing and explaining how your workplace’s culture affects your organization’s communication processes or information flows. Could that culture be contributing to the communication problem you are investigating?
.
OntoSOC: S ociocultural K nowledge O ntology IJwest
This paper
present
s
a
sociocultural knowledge ontology (OntoSOC) modeling appro
a
ch. Ont
o-
SOC modeling appro
a
ch is based on Engeström‟s
Human Activity Theory (HAT)
.
That Theory allowed us
to identify fundamental concepts and rel
a
tionshi
ps between them. The top
-
down precess has been used to
d
efine differents sub
-
concepts. The
modeled vocabulary permits us to organise data, to facilitate in
form
a-
tion retrieval
by introducing a semantic layer in social web platform architec
ture,
we project t
o impl
e
ment.
This platform can be considered as a «
collective me
mory
»
and Participative and Distributed Info
r
mation
System
(PDIS) which will allow Cameroonian communities to share an co
-
construct knowledge on perm
a-
nent organi
z
ed activ
i
ties.
Future of the Social Web and How to Stop ItChris Messina
The talk I presented in Chicago at SocialDevCamp.
The cartoon depiction of me is by David Lanham (http://dlanham.com).
http://www.socialdevcampchicago.com/
OpenID & OAuth for the Consumer Web Workshop, Part 1 of 3Chris Messina
This is the first 1/3 of a workshop I gave with Eric Sachs and David Primmer of Google at the Cloud Identity Summit.
http://www.cloudidentitysummit.com/
Slides from my session at Google I/O covering the latest and most important trends of the Social Web and dive deep into where this is all going, at the conceptual level.
From the concepts of digital identity, relationships, and social objects, this session will cover emerging technologies like WebFinger, Salmon, ActivityStrea.ms, OpenID, and OAuth.
http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/open-and-social-web.html
ActivityStrea.ms: Is It Getting Streamy In Here?Chris Messina
From Facebook's newsfeed to Twitter's relentless real-time updates, the metaphor of the "stream" has taken social networking beyond blog posts and on to rich social activities. Learn about ActivityStrea.ms - the open format adopted by Facebook, MySpace, and Windows Live - and how it's fundamentally changing the social web.
http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/400
One more variant of the Identity is the Platform talk — this time given at Netflix, mentioning Google's new Social Search experiment for the first time.
This is the talk I gave at Mindtrek in Tampere, Finland.
Video is available here:
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/10/01/video-of-my-talk-identity-is-the-platform/
Presented by Chris Messina (OpenID Foundation), David Recordon (Six Apart), Joseph Smarr (Plaxo). As evidenced by Barack Obama’s successful presidential campaign, we have clearly entered the age of the social web. This developer-oriented workshop will emphasize the use and application of free, open building blocks for enabling social networking features on your site or service, and provide illuminating insights from some of the key figures creating these technologies.
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/8575
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
3. Understanding the Social Web
but let’s turn to a broader and more fundamental topic: understanding the social web, and
how some of our thinking is evolving and manifesting itself in several modern technologies.
5. Image by Tom Burns
...but it’s also about partying. And no one partied like those rascally soviets back in the early
part of the previous century.
Hard to believe, but amidst all their partying they had enough time to develop a theory of
labor, called activity theory.
6. Activity Theorists
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky Aleksei N. Leontiev Yrjö Engeström
1896–1934 1903 - 1979 1948 - present
Some of the more prominent activity theorists include Vygotsky, Leontiev, and Engestrom
(yes, Jyri’s dad)
7. Tools
Subject Object Outcome
Vygotsky
Activity Theory was developed as a way of understanding and shaping a workforce, which was
of course a very soviet thing to do.
As such, Vygotsky’s activity theory was heavily centered on tool mediation and the
relationship of a single actor to an object or objective. The theory goes much deeper, but
from a lay perspective, this is where it all began.
8. Mediating Artefacts
Subject Goal Outcome
Rules Roles
Community
Engeström, 1987
Fast-forward several decades, and the Scandanavians expanded Activity Theory by putting
the actor in the context of a community where there were social norms and roles at work.
This basic framework could help to explain social development, organization, culture, and
social systems at various scales and degrees of inspection.
9. Mediating Artefacts
Sense
Subject Goal Outcome
Meaning
Rules Roles
Community
Engeström, 1987
Curiously, by studying this model — and examing how goal achievement functions socially —
we begin to understand how meaning is made and cultural understanding grows.
So, if your goal is to actually produce meaning, knowledge, and understanding — you can
work within these constructs to motivate action.
10. Mediating Artefacts
Subject Goal Outcome
Rules Roles
Community
Engeström, 1987
...especially if you think about how roles, rules, and mediating artefacts (tools) all relate to
one another.
11. so, for example, if you’re designing a new app for the first time, think about how you can
manipulate the roles, rules, and tools increase interest, desire, or motivation you might
develop a series of rewards for completing certain tasks, bounded by rules
12. so, for example, if you’re designing a new app for the first time, think about how you can
manipulate the roles, rules, and tools increase interest, desire, or motivation you might
develop a series of rewards for completing certain tasks, bounded by rules
13. Social Objects
and the way that you can ground activity is through the creation or fabrication of social
objects.
14. “People don’t just connect to each other. They
connect through a shared object.”
Jyri Engeström
Photo of Jyri by eirikso
According to, Jyri Engstrom (Yaro’s son!), a “social object” is a primary vehicle for social
interaction.
15. A nice example of this idea is Katamari Damacy, a game where you control a character that
goes around collecting stuff by adhering it to its body.
this is not unlike the way that activities define who you are today.
indeed, as the game progresses, all these things that you collect come to define you and your
experience.
16. rating, add to playlist, favorite, share, copy the URL, flag, play, comment, reply by video
adding value to objects that are uploaded by users. that turns them into social objects.
17. add notes, tags, comments, favorite, add to galleries, add contact, interact with other
members...
but here’s a twist to Flickr’s approach...
18. Mediating Artefacts
Subject Goal Outcome
Rules Roles
Community
Yrjö Engeström, 1987
you take activity theory...
19. Mediating Artefacts
Subject Goal Outcome
Rules Roles
Community
Engeström, 1987
by focusing on these elements — you can understand why Flickr works the way it does.
20. Mediating Artefacts
Subject Goal Outcome
Rules Roles
Community
Engeström, 1987
one thing that they’ve done rather well, is make it possible for the subject to manipulate the
rules of the Flickr environment.
21. and on Flickr, I can set the rules of engagement, making it possible for me to personalize my
experience, and focus on interactions that are more meaningful to me, while also setting the
rules for what people can do with my contributions.
By delegating this rule-making to the individual, Flickr creates a richer system of interaction
with its own economics.
22. and on Flickr, I can set the rules of engagement, making it possible for me to personalize my
experience, and focus on interactions that are more meaningful to me, while also setting the
rules for what people can do with my contributions.
By delegating this rule-making to the individual, Flickr creates a richer system of interaction
with its own economics.
23. How these rules are surfaced, and how well the user understands them, is essential when
designing social systems in order to avoid “surprises”, for example when changes to the rules
of a system are introduced, as we’ve seen with Facebook over the last several years as its
evolved its privacy model.
24. Identity & Friends & Activities
the basic building blocks of the social web...
26. in some cases, it’s my passport, which tells you where I’m from, how old I am, and where I’ve
been.
27. Photo by bcymet
in other cases I’m represented by a unique biological signal... like my fingerprint.
28. Photo by mona
In other cases it’s a virtual collection of attributes that I decide on given a certain purpose or
context.
29. and this last case starts to get at why OpenID, as a technology, and a concept is core to the
architecture of the social web... because if the web is all about people, the atomic unit of the
social web is the individual.
30. Photo by Teresa Stanton
The technology itself enables you to use an account that you on one website on another one.
That’s about it. But that persistence leads to all kinds of new capabilities that web wasn’t
originally built with. And the good news is that this technology is seeing relatively rapid
adoption.
31. Unique OpenID Relying Parties
As of July 1, 2009
Data from Janrain
So as we’ve seen an explosion in the number of OpenID relying parties in the last five years
— users are carefully considering which account they want to use to sign in.
32. Unique OpenID Relying Parties
As of July 1, 2009
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So as we’ve seen an explosion in the number of OpenID relying parties in the last five years
— users are carefully considering which account they want to use to sign in.
33. Unique OpenID Relying Parties
As of July 1, 2009
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So as we’ve seen an explosion in the number of OpenID relying parties in the last five years
— users are carefully considering which account they want to use to sign in.
34. 1 Billion+ OpenIDs
and we’ve also seen an explosion in the number of OpenID-enabled accounts across the web.
35. But one challenge that we have is how to ask people who they want to be on the web, across
numerous contexts. [CLICK]. Some conventions are developing, but it’s currently an unsolved
problem that we’re spending A LOT of time on — because these simple buttons will never
scale to the number of providers that the open web demands.
36. ?
But one challenge that we have is how to ask people who they want to be on the web, across
numerous contexts. [CLICK]. Some conventions are developing, but it’s currently an unsolved
problem that we’re spending A LOT of time on — because these simple buttons will never
scale to the number of providers that the open web demands.
37. Photo by larry wfu
this is what we call the NASCAR problem.
38. Photo by Vaguely Artistic
and it’s only going to get worse as more and more sites demand that you sign up and
register for them.
39. Friends & Contacts
so once we have identity and profile on the web, it’s all about creating connections.
40. This is my social graph — a view of my connections and relationships.
41. This is my social graph — a view of my connections and relationships.
42. and so the challenge we have is sharing social context between all of these different
contexts...
43. and so the challenge we have is sharing social context between all of these different
contexts...
44. Source: Paul Adams
however, as it turns out, our relations are more complicated than that. for example, in
research conducted by Paul Adams, one of his subjects actually had a rather segmented set
of relationships.
45. she had friends in LA; friends in San Diego... family.... and trains ten year old in kids
competitive swimming.
You can imagine that she wouldn’t necessarily want all of her interactions with these groups
to overlap...
46. she had friends in LA; friends in San Diego... family.... and trains ten year old in kids
competitive swimming.
You can imagine that she wouldn’t necessarily want all of her interactions with these groups
to overlap...
47. she had friends in LA; friends in San Diego... family.... and trains ten year old in kids
competitive swimming.
You can imagine that she wouldn’t necessarily want all of her interactions with these groups
to overlap...
48. she had friends in LA; friends in San Diego... family.... and trains ten year old in kids
competitive swimming.
You can imagine that she wouldn’t necessarily want all of her interactions with these groups
to overlap...
49. Online O ine
Source: Paul Adams
and yet our current online approach to friends — especially between networks — is
particularly monolithic.
50. we’ve developed the technology to make it possible to COPY all of your contacts from one
site to another, but our current challenge is to preserve the contextual integrity of
relationships on the open web.
51. we’ve developed the technology to make it possible to COPY all of your contacts from one
site to another, but our current challenge is to preserve the contextual integrity of
relationships on the open web.
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we’ve developed the technology to make it possible to COPY all of your contacts from one
site to another, but our current challenge is to preserve the contextual integrity of
relationships on the open web.
53. Activities
so, presuming that we solve internet identity and make social relationships model our offline
sophistication... the next step is to model activities on the web so that we can discover more
easily what’s going on, and develop great insights into our own behaviors.
54. the simplest activity streams on the web help you discover what your friends are doing...
they’re all about discovery.
55. so for example you can track the songs you’re listening to...
56. and then annoy your friends with updates from all the tracks you’ve listened to... big whoop!
58. and then visualize them in ways that allow you to see trends and insights that were
previously invisible.
59. the basic premise of activity streams is to capture all of the things you do you online and
generate essentially receipts ... just like you get when you buy stuff.
60. the basic premise of activity streams is to capture all of the things you do you online and
generate essentially receipts ... just like you get when you buy stuff.
61. icons by Fast Icon
...eventually generating receipts for all of these different services...
62. using a format called activitystreams... an emerging format being developer to enable social
networking interop.
63. activitystrea.ms
using a format called activitystreams... an emerging format being developer to enable social
networking interop.
64. And I think it’s really important to point out that Google has adopted this format — along
with Facebook, Microsoft, Opera, and several others to enable cross-publishing and discovery
of activities on the social web...
65. Google Buzz
And I think it’s really important to point out that Google has adopted this format — along
with Facebook, Microsoft, Opera, and several others to enable cross-publishing and discovery
of activities on the social web...
66. And I wanted to bring up one last example where we’re starting to see some really exciting
interop take place... there’s this site called Cliqset and they’re leaders in adopting a number
of the technologies I’ve both mentioned and alluded to this morning...
67. ...recently they launched interoperability with another company call Status.net, which makes
the identi.ca microblogging software. In some ways it was a small step for man, but it was a
giant leap for the open, social web because it indicated that these social web technologies
that operate entirely in the background are finally growing up and finding proponents. It’s
small steps like this that give us some sense for how the open, social web will evolve.
68. ...recently they launched interoperability with another company call Status.net, which makes
the identi.ca microblogging software. In some ways it was a small step for man, but it was a
giant leap for the open, social web because it indicated that these social web technologies
that operate entirely in the background are finally growing up and finding proponents. It’s
small steps like this that give us some sense for how the open, social web will evolve.
69. and so if we bring it back to activity theory — we can now start to see the contours of how
the technologies will enable new kinds of social experiences on the distributed social web
that are richer and more diverse than any particular individual social network on its own.
70. because it shouldn’t matter where people establish their identities, make friends, or do
things on the social web. the web is an extension of humanity that today lacks the essential
wiring to mirror the social network that exists in reality. and that’s where I believe Google can
make the biggest, and longest term contribution to the social web.
71. because it shouldn’t matter where people establish their identities, make friends, or do
things on the social web. the web is an extension of humanity that today lacks the essential
wiring to mirror the social network that exists in reality. and that’s where I believe Google can
make the biggest, and longest term contribution to the social web.
72. if you think about it, we’re really just at the very beginning of time on the web, and the
technologies that we’re working on here at Google and with the wider community will, I hope,
lead to something very interesting, worthwhile, and powerful.