Presentation : Amsterdam, Mediamatic
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Federating Social Network Borrel
Celebrating cooperation
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8 Dec 2007 17:00
17:00 Mediamatic Vijzelstraat 72, 3rd floor, suite 3.10 1017 HL Amsterdam (view on map) T +31206389901 www.mediamatic.net
1st presentation on explorations to federate social network sites. In the future it will no longer be necessary to re-enter (and maintain) your profile, or make contact with friends for the 2nd, 3rd of 4th time on every new o-so-cool website. The system will do this for you.
This weekend a group of international software makers worked at Mediamatic on protocols and techniques. And we explore how we can work together. David Recordon (Six Apart, San Francisco), Blaine Cook (Twitter, San Francisco) and Willem Velthoven (Mediamatic) will give short reports. And we raise the glass on social networks!
Location:
Mediamatic / El HEMA, Oosterdokskade 5, ground floor, side entrance, Amsterdam
3 comments
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.
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
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