I’m digesting some of the reactions to Google’s recently announced Social Graph API. ReadWriteWeb ask whether this is a creeping privacy violation, and danah boyd has a thoughtful post raising concerns about whether the privileged tech elite have any right to experiment in this way with the online lives of those who are lack status, [...]
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Google Social Graph API, privacy and the public record
Posted in Activism, Essays, FOAF, Jabber/XMPP, Politics, RDF, Semantic Web, Technology, Web Technology, ggg, privacy Also tagged danahboyd, FOAF, google, privacy, social graph, socialgraphapi, timoreilly 5 Comments
Waving not Drowning? groups as buddylist filters
I’ve lately started writing up and prototyping around a use-case for the “Group” construct in FOAF and for medium-sized, partially private data aggregators like SparqlPress. I think we can do something interesting to deal with the social pressure and information load people are experiencing on sites like Flickr and Twitter.
Often people have rather large lists [...]
Posted in Essays, Image Description, SPARQL, Technology, ggg Also tagged facebook, filters, flickr, FOAF, groups, information overload, sparqlpress, twitter 5 Comments