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Presentation: Amsterdam, Mediamatic Post CS – 3 comments
Federating Social Network Borrel
Celebrating cooperation
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8
Dec
2007
17:00 Mediamatic Post CS Oosterdokskade 5 Amsterdam www.mediamatic.net (view on map)
It was the 1st presentation on explorations to federate social network sites. From this day onward, it was no longer be necessary to re-enter (and maintain) your profile, or make contact with friends for the 2nd, 3rd or 4th time on every new o-so-cool website; The software automatically does this for you!
Of course, mediamatic thought this was an excellent excuse for a fantastic party!
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!
Federating Social Network Borrel at Mediamatic -
Photo by Nadya Peek, taken from her Flickr page
Federal Social Network Borrel at Mediamatic -
Photo by Nadya Peek, taken from her Flickr page
Federal Social Network Borrel at Mediamatic -
Photo by Michel Zappa, taken from his Flickr page
Federal Social Network Borrel at Mediamatic -
Photo by Illustir, taken from his Flickr page
Federal Social Network Borrel at Mediamatic -
Photo by Illustir, taken from his Flickr page
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