1. DiSo
Developing an open, distributed social network
diso-project.org
Undertaken by Chris Messina, Steve Ivy, Will Norris,
Stephen Paul Weber et al.

2. background

3. CivicSpace → SpreadFirefox → Flock → Citizen Agency
BarCamp; Coworking
Microformats; OpenID; OAuth

4. social networking is NOT...

5. Source: butchgibson.org

6. Source: CoolMyspaceComments

7. Source: LayoutLounge

8. Source: Chris Messina

9. Source: Chris Messina

10. how it got this way...

11. college students
bands
professionals
etc...
Super-nichefication

12. System-centric design
Source: Darren Barefoot

13. System-centric value
Source: Le Monde

14. Hyper-valuations
Source: Mick Hagen (mickhagen.com)

15. users ≠ customers

16. users ≠ customers
users ≠ customers

17. users ≠ customers
users ≠ customers
users ≠ customers

18. from system-centric
to citizen-centric

19. the web citizen

20. the web citizen has ID

21. the web citizen has
provenance

22. the web citizen has friends

23. the web citizen has agency

24. aspects of distributed
social network...

25. ...a few benefits...

26. ...a few challenges...

27. the components
of a DiSo site

28. activities

29. Text

30. Digg, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, Jaiku

31. Text

32. Text

35. people & friends
+ identity

36. Text

37. messaging &
notifications

39. permissions

40. basecamp

41. viddler

42. imeem

43. plaxo pulse

44. flickr / yahoo mash

45. groups, groupings
& events

46. viddler

47. my.barackobama.com

48. upcoming

49. More on identity

50. identity consolidation
& rel-me

51. pownce

52. digg

53. mybloglog

54. plaxo pulse

55. Technologies

56. OpenID
http://openid.net

57. Microformats
http://microformats.org

58. OAuth
http://oauth.net

59. XRDS-Simple
http://oauth.net

60. ATOM/APP
http://atomenabled.org

61. Jabber/XMPP
http://jabber.org

62. Current status

63. More
http://diso-project.org
http://groups.google.com/group/diso
http://diso.googlecode.com
http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/diso
http://flickr.com/groups/diso/

64. End.
Neural network images by Mark Miller