Comments on: Note to Facebook, Myspace and Other Social Silos: DIE http://www.justinball.com/2008/03/04/note-to-facebook-myspace-and-other-social-silos-die/ Life is an optimization issue Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:32:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare hourly 1 By: Tony http://www.justinball.com/2008/03/04/note-to-facebook-myspace-and-other-social-silos-die/comment-page-1/#comment-3761 Tony Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:45:15 +0000 http://www.justinball.com/?p=351#comment-3761 Couldn't agree more, identity and social networking based around an openid-enabled domain that you own and can move from provider to provider without losing the key identifier that links you to the world. It may be a lot closer than you think. ;) Couldn’t agree more, identity and social networking based around an openid-enabled domain that you own and can move from provider to provider without losing the key identifier that links you to the world.

It may be a lot closer than you think. ;)

]]> By: Connected Communities http://www.justinball.com/2008/03/04/note-to-facebook-myspace-and-other-social-silos-die/comment-page-1/#comment-3755 Connected Communities Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:46:33 +0000 http://www.justinball.com/?p=351#comment-3755 [...] One option would be to connect the parent community to its spawn. If the owner of the original community is smart they would recognize the impending migration and instead of building a wall prevent it they would provide the new home world. Tired of the 5 or 6 categories Digg has? Simple, add a new category on that site and see if anyone follows you. I know that there are loose connections of Digg users that try to Digg each others stories to get them to the top. Instead of creating new algorithms to force these guys into Bury oblivion embrace the community that is forming and give them their own space to communicate and share. Then if something becomes popular within that group that content can be pushed out to the other communities it is connected to - the original parent community or other communities that members have formed relationships with or the other communities that are linked into the member blogs. [...] [...] One option would be to connect the parent community to its spawn. If the owner of the original community is smart they would recognize the impending migration and instead of building a wall prevent it they would provide the new home world. Tired of the 5 or 6 categories Digg has? Simple, add a new category on that site and see if anyone follows you. I know that there are loose connections of Digg users that try to Digg each others stories to get them to the top. Instead of creating new algorithms to force these guys into Bury oblivion embrace the community that is forming and give them their own space to communicate and share. Then if something becomes popular within that group that content can be pushed out to the other communities it is connected to – the original parent community or other communities that members have formed relationships with or the other communities that are linked into the member blogs. [...]

]]> By: Encephalosponge » Blog Archive » BuddyPress frees social networking http://www.justinball.com/2008/03/04/note-to-facebook-myspace-and-other-social-silos-die/comment-page-1/#comment-3750 Encephalosponge » Blog Archive » BuddyPress frees social networking Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:50:41 +0000 http://www.justinball.com/?p=351#comment-3750 [...] The important part of this is something I’ve felt for a long time. No offense to users of Facebook, MySpace or what-have-you, but I think this quote sums it up very nicely: I am tired of data silos. I am tired of trying to keep up with every new site that comes along. I am tired of someone else owning my place on the internet. This is my place. This blog is me. Anyone who reads this I am sure will think I am strange that I mix my personal thoughts in with my programming frustrations. I don’t care. I write this for me because I own these bits and by hell they will do my bidding. -Justin Ball [...] [...] The important part of this is something I’ve felt for a long time. No offense to users of Facebook, MySpace or what-have-you, but I think this quote sums it up very nicely: I am tired of data silos. I am tired of trying to keep up with every new site that comes along. I am tired of someone else owning my place on the internet. This is my place. This blog is me. Anyone who reads this I am sure will think I am strange that I mix my personal thoughts in with my programming frustrations. I don’t care. I write this for me because I own these bits and by hell they will do my bidding. -Justin Ball [...]

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