This past weekend I attended a topic-specific FOO Camp called Social Graph FOO Camp (otherwise known as SGFOO) organized by Scott Kveton and David Recordon (or ray-chor-dohn according to Larry).
Scott’s write up is pretty complete, but I wanted to call out one specific outcome that I think is worth noting.
On Sunday, we had a significant [...]
Anne Zelenka of Web Worker Daily and GigaOM fame wrote me to ask what I meant by “building a social network with its skin inside out” when I was describing DiSo, the project that Steve Ivy and I (and now Will Norris) are working on.
Since understanding this change that I envision is crucial to the [...]
By Chris Messina
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Posted in Citizen-centric Web, Digital Identity, Ideas, Life online, Personal, Philosophy, Society & economy, Technology, The Web Arts, Web building
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Also tagged danah boyd, DiSo, diso project, social capital, social networking
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I wrote this this morning in a notebook as a follow up to my post yesterday… and since I don’t have time to clean it up now, I thought I’d present in raw, non-sensible form. Maybe there’s some value in a rough draft:
It’s like giving our money to a bank and having them turn around [...]