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Just found iusethis.com, a nice site where you can vote which applications you use. At the moment only available for applications that run under Mac OS X, i think. But i like the idea, because i found some really cool apps i didn’t know before.
The whole concept is just like digg.com does it with bookmarks.

…Moment. Eigentlich müsste es heißen:

Ach wie gut, dass jeder weiß, dass ich xy heiß alles über mich weiß. Wenigstens bei Facebook. ;)

Die neuen “News-Feeds” informieren Facebook-Mitglieder automatisch über Änderungen in den Profilen ihrer Freunde. Jede Bewegung auf dem Portal erhält einen Zeitstempel und wird anderen Mitgliedern mitgeteilt.

(Quelle: heise.de / Facebook-Community rebelliert gegen neues Feature)

Aber am besten finde ich den Kommentar von dem Facebook-Gründer:

And we agree, stalking isn’t cool

(Quelle: facebook.com / Calm down. Breathe. We hear you.)

Ach ne? ;)

Elias Torres, Wing Yung and Ben Szekely have created an ATOM-Server called Queso with a little interface using AJAX:

Queso is a J2EE-style application that implements the Atom Protocol specification currently in draft-09 atop an RDF server called Boca (the restaurant’s name is Boca Grande, a.k.a. Big Mouth) using Henry Story’s Atom OWL for the model and of course opening up a SPARQL endpoint to query the contents the store.

The actual data-storing takes place using RDF-Data. But the data is inserted by the user or the machine using Atom-syntax:

Content is inserted into the system is by posting Atom entries. The entries are stored as RDF (converted via Atom OWL by Henry Story), so their content and metadata is accessible via SPARQL queries. [...]

But test yourself under http://abdera.watson.ibm.com:8080/browser/. Its very rudimental so far, but looks promising.

Just visit a site which obviously likes social sharing services. They use these icons for their articles:

Whow, I don’t even know the half of these services. Ok, if i am honest, i only know three of them. ;)
That seems to me like a little oversupply of such social sharing stuff.

In this article Scott Granneman thinks about MySpace and the problems which this social network involves.

The company can hire all the security officers it wants, and it could replace every ad with a flashing banner that says “DO NOT TRUST RANDOM STRANGERS!!!”, and send fliers to every parent in America … and bad things would still happen to kids connected to MySpace.

Mensch, ich sollte öfters mal den Heise-Newsticker lesen. Da war vor einigen Tagen ein Artikel über Soziale Netze. Es ging wieder einmal um den Missbrauch der Benutzerdaten — dieses Mal von Seiten der Geheimdienste.

Zudem gabs auch einen Verweis auf ein interessantes Paper was ich auch noch nicht kannte:

Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection (PDF-Dokument)

Like TechWeb said, “Digital Dirt” can be a problem for people who apply for a new job:

[...] 35 percent said they dropped a job candidate because of information uncovered online.

Uuh, so watch out which information you leave in the internet and use for example my survival guide for social networking. ;)

From Wil Harris’ “Why Web 2.0 will end your privacy“:

[...]
So Murdoch knows everything about MySpace. The financial gurus at Yahoo know all about your personal thoughts, pictures and bookmarks. The guys at Google know everything about your search habits, and you can bet they want to link ‘em up to your email and calendar and whatever else you end up using online. How much is that data worth? With marketing spends online going ever upwards, as more and more of the world ‘logs on’, you can bet that it’s only going to get more and more valuable.

And where it’s valuable, it will be bought and sold. Our social networks, searching habits, visual identifiers and personal preferences will be mercilessly sold to anyone who wants to get their hands on our particular demographic.
[...]

My last posting dealt with privacy in social networks. In one of the comments Tristan Louis made the following statement:

The balance between privacy and openness is an interesting one. I’m not sure of how to address it… yet :)

I thought about it and my first idea was: Disguise your data.

Its not bad if social networks share their data. The bad thing is, if your profile-data from network A can by easily connected to your profile-data from network B. With “easily” i mean especially in an automated way.

So where are the possible junctures between profiles?

• First of all your Email-Address. Its an unique identifier.
• Your chosen username.
• Your name. Not unique but a possible connection.
• Your address.
• A picture of you. Modern image recognition algorithms are available and can answer the question if two pictures are equal or not.
• The contacts you invite.
• The URL of your homepage.
• …

So what can you do to avoid the connection of profiles?

1. One social network = one new email-address. Use different email-addresses in every network.
2. Use different usernames.
3. Yes, also use different names. Ok, you don’t need to rename yourself into ‘Peter’ if your name is ‘Daniel’. But make little changes in your first- and especially in your lastname (the firstname is often used if the social platform gets in contact with you. The lastname is not so important.)
4. Always use a fake address. No social platform needs your real address.
5. If you want to use a personal picture in the social network always use a new one for each network you take part in.
6. Do not always invite the same people in every network. Your personal circle of friends is also like a huge identifier.
7. Avoid to reveal the URL of your personal homepage.
8. Change your day of birth. Minor “modifications” are sufficient (e.g. change your day +/- 5)
9. …

If you follow these tips, every network you use will get a unique profile. So its nearly impossible to find a connection of profiles between different networks — in an automated way.
Ok, if a real human wants to get the connection he will get it. But you can complicate it. ;)

Tristan Louis lists some reasons why social networks may fail. One reason is that people pay attention to their privacy and are not willing to share all their private data. Tristan also says that such networks have to get more integrated with other applications and have to stop their existence as “walled gardens”.

But i mean, if you would follow these proposals and increase the integration and share more data with the outside world, the lack of privacy would become much more bigger. And then we would return to the first reason “privacy concerns”.

In my opinion the most of the social networks fail, because there are too much of them. There are some well-known which run excellent and most of their users doesn’t care about privacy. The rest of the networks – all the copyists – will die in the next 15 months. And between the players there will be a selection.
Its because the users don’t feel like maintain their private data in X networks. It consumes to much time and results in nothing. But we will see. ;)

Schon etwas älter, aber immer noch hochaktuell: ein kleines Szenario, wie soziale Netze manipulativ genutzt werden könnten.

Social Pishing, so das Gedankenexperiment würde ein wenig mehr Vorbereitung brauchen, aber die Effekte wären durchschlagender. Denn soziale Duftmarken im Netz zu hinterlassen, ist weitaus anerkannter als noch Mitte der 90er. Damit auch glaubwürdiger.

Eben durch Zufall hier entdeckt. Social Networking mal aus einem anderen Blickwinkel betrachtet. Aber trauriger Weise ist viel Wahres dabei. ;)

Video ansehen…

Just read an article about Web 3.0. It describes the development of Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. And it creates a vision of the next step: Web 3.0.
One aspect of this future-web:

[...] that there are no Web sites. Existing Web sites are no longer meant for human eyes. They act as indexes to the information, which is accessible via XML request.

It would be very sad, if everyone only consumes information over XML-feeds using special applications on its personal computer. The information would “lost its soul” if we rip it from its environment – the website.
So many people – especially bloggers – invest so much time in creating these environment. It would be a shame to ignore this. We would step back to 1980 where every site looks similar.

Schöne neue Mashup-Welt!
Die wird sich nun auch bei IBM groß auf die Fahne geschrieben. So besagt es anscheinend eine keynote von Rod Smith:

BM’s so-called “Enterprise Mashup” breaks down the barriers of traditional application development and provides a framework that uses Web services and wiki technology to allow people to create a customized application in less than five minutes. [...]
IBM’s Enterprise Mashup blends external information and web services (e.g., news feeds, weather reports, maps, traffic conditions and more) with enterprise content and services, instantly “mashing” them together to create a fast, flexible and affordable application for specific business needs.

IBM liegt also mal wieder voll im Trend. ;)

Dion Hinchcliffe hat mit Duane Nickull über das Web in der Version 2.0 gesprochen und erfahren, dass der Herr Nickull schon seit einiger Zeit an Design Patterns arbeitet, die den Konzepten von Web 2.0 ein wenig Struktur geben sollen.