Jul
15

Universal Web ID & accountability

Posted in random thoughts at 2:47 pm with tags: • • • • • • • • •

Jerkface and I were talking the other day about how people are just total assholes on the internet, be it message board, craigslist, or xbox live. We both agree its because there is a lack of ‘accountability’ on the web (great article). Being anonymous and not having face to face interactions drastically reduces ‘risk’. Call someone a gay ass hole, and maybe they’ll flame you back, but that’s about it. Do that in the real world, and you might get the crap beat out of you or be fired from your job.

Attempts are being made now to include some ‘accountability’ in the web, Ebay’s User Feedback is one of the longest standing, Xbox Live has player rep, you can block people on facebook, etc. Unfortunately, the distributed nature of all these databases means that this info is pretty much useless.

However, with the oncoming wave of Friend Connect, OpenID, and whatever else develops, a truly universal online identity may be just around the corner. Other that not having to create a new damned account for every service, I think one of the nice potentials of this is universal accountability. If you’re act like a dick in a game of halo and I provide feedback, that should totally affect how likely your comments are to get DUGG. Now I know people will always find ways to create multiple accounts and that a universal ID does eliminate anonymity on the net, which in many ways is one of its great strengths.

But god damn it would be nice to have less assholes filling up the web-o-sphere.

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Nov
8

Facebook Social Memory Wiki

Posted in Uncategorized at 5:23 pm with tags: • • •

Had this idea last thanksgiving, talked with Stan about it a bit when he played with SongTales, and nearly forgot about it.

Was just now browsing over Facebook’s “Social Timeline” again. Somewhat nifty, but more or less useless. It’d be kick ass if they took it one step further and basically made it into a “calendar” that integrated the “events” function, and also allowed you to openly add PAST events and moments in time.

Things like Casey’s 30th Birthday, Niles’ wedding, The Chocolate Cake fight, the day I moved to Boulder, when my cat died, all seminal events in my life, could be added. This ‘date’ then becomes a wiki entry of a sort, with a general description of the evening, then comments by Approved attendees where they can post written recollections of the night, upload tagged photos, videos, etc…

Suddenly you could get lost for hours stumbling through your friends lives and events, and likely discover simple things like the girl you’re now dating was actually at that party before you knew each other, that you were only passed out on the beach in mexico for 15 minutes, or god knows what else. Integrate the memories in the social space. I think it’d be cool. I’ll make sure to ‘tag’ you in the memor-entry for when I wrote this blog post and you read it.

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Jun
18

New Eye-Strain Post

Posted in Uncategorized at 12:12 pm with tags: • • • •

my [semi] coherent rant on social networks and where they might be heading…

The Networks Are Breeding (and why facebook will win)

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