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Presentation: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS – 3 comments

Federating Social Network Borrel

Celebrating cooperation

First exploration on how to connect social network sites. In the future it will no longer be necessary to re-create (and maintain) your profile, or make contact with friends for the 2nd, 3rd or 4th time on every new o-so-cool website; because the software will automatically do this for you.

with:
Twitter, Six Apart and Mediamatic

During this weekend a group of international software makers worked at Mediamatic on protocols and techniques and explored the best options on how to work together. David Recordon (Six Apart, San Francisco), Blaine Cook (Twitter, San Francisco) and Willem Velthoven (Mediamatic) gave short reports and raised their glasses to social networking.

3 comments

Privacy Policy?

talking of social networks... the way this site forces me to sign up publicly on the website when I only wanted to register to come to an event - that already makes me worry. Then there is no privacy policy, and hey... you can't even delete your account.
Is this the kind of protocol you want to talk about?
If anything social networks might be build on trust, so this clearly is one I don't want to be part of.
clara

  • clara
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5 Dec 07, 16:13

NO Privacy:-)

Hello Clara,

Indeed, this public event is for sharing and meeting. Hence the participants will be visible before, during and after the event. This is consistent with the goals of the event.

Our website of course offers ample possibilities to modulate your visibility and privacy.

1: You can leave your profile empty. Just give it a name. e.g. "Clara"
2: You can decide who gets to see your profile: Google, Just members, only your "contacts", or even no-one (only yourself).

These two options should be enough to manage your privacy we hope.

N.B. we do have the habit of making pictures during our events and publish them though. So if you do not want to be visible, please notify us in advance so we can help protecting your privacy.

We'll also delete your profile without further ado if you wish.

,
6 Dec 07, 12:12

Report on the presentation

I did a quick report on the presentation, posted it a little bit late. It sums up most of the discussed issues without any subjective twist. (written in Dutch)

You can check it at teletekstisdood.blogspot.com/2008/01/review-report-mediamatic-federating.html

,
7 Jan 08, 14:50