diso & the open web

DiSo & The Open Web

DiSo is an open, distributed social network

diso-project.org

Undertaken by Chris Messina, Steve Ivy, Will Norris, Stephen Paul Weber et al.

Background

Employment

Community Projects

Standards & Protocols

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Site-specific browsers

CivicSpaceA network of grassroots organizing sites

Spread FirefoxA vast collective of volunteer marketers

BarCampA decentralized community of unstructured event participants

FlockA browser for the distributed social web

CoworkingA loose network of shared workspaces

Spot the trend?

The Starfish and the SpiderThe Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

Social networking routines...

Source: groundswell.forrester.com

Participating

Consuming

Adding friends

Inviting friends (anti-pattern)

Inviting friends (anti-pattern)

Inviting friends (the righter way!)

Sending messages within networks

Seeing what friends are up to

Deciding who can see and do what

Adding apps

Fighting app spam!

How we got here

All about the niches bitches!

bands

college students

professionals

Then niche sites traded focus to serve “everyone”:(

everyone!

everyone!

everyone! (who works)

System-centric design

System-centric value

Source: Le Monde

Source: Mick Hagen (mickhagen.com)

Users are not the same thing as customers!

From system-centric to citizen-centric

the web citizen

the web citizenhas ID

the web citizenhas provenance

the web citizenhas friends

the web citizenhas enemies

the web citizenhas agency

Components of the DiSo model

Activities

So

urce

: htt

p:/

/ad

acti

o.co

m/e

xtra

s/st

ream

/

So

urce

: htt

p:/

/fri

end

feed

.co

m

So

urce

: htt

p:/

/dav

idre

cord

on.

com

People, friends & identity

Identity consolidation

Digg

Pownce

MyBlogLog

FriendFeed

Messaging & notifications

bacn!“Email you want, but not right now.”

Permissions

Basecamp

Plaxo Pulse

Flickr & Yahoo! Mash

Fire Eagle & Dopplr

Groupings

Viddler

barackobama.com

Upcoming

DiSo Technologies

ATOM + microformats

http://atomenabled.org/http://microformats.org/

XFN

• me

• contact

• acquaintance

• friend

• met

• co-worker

• colleague

• co-resident

• neighbor

• child

• parent

• sibling

• spouse

• kin

• muse

• crush

• date

• sweetheart

• me

• contact

• acquaintance

• friend

• met

• co-worker

• colleague

• co-resident

• neighbor

• child

• parent

• sibling

• spouse

• kin

• muse

• crush

• date

• sweetheart

rel-merel-contact

OpenID

http://openid.net/

OAuth

http://oauth.net/

XRDS-Simple

http://xrds-simple.net/

XMPP / Jabber

Status

• oauth

• wp-diso-actionstream

• wp-diso-contactlist

• wp-diso-profile

• wp-openid

• wp-xmpp

diso.googlecode.com

A note about design

DiSo & the Open Web

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/disohttp://slideshare.net/group/diso

Me

http://factoryjoe.com

http://twitter.com/factoryjoehttp://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoehttp://citizenagency.com

End.

Neural network images by Mark Miller