Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Timeline yourself.
Automatically create a Personal Timeline of your life fr ...

I first came across the phrase social graph in 2007, in ...
The idea of representing relationships between people as ...
At the time he wrote, Fitzpatrick had two points to make ...
Fitzpatrick subsequently went to work for Google, and hi ...
... ith the

kids computer
Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro (Creative Commons)
The ‘Fall of Facebook’ seems an odd title given this ...

A friend of mine called Mark Alexander is in prison, wro...
He’s been in prison for quite some months (good lord, ...
(Andy and I have been discussing related issues of laten ...
Email A Prisoner is a nice service, and has been complem ...
So I was ab

The web is better when it's social
The web is more interesting when you can build apps that ...
OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications ...
Many sites, one API
A common API means you have less to learn to build for m ...

The Open Graph protocol enables you to integrate your we... social graph. It is currently designed for web pages rep... of real-world things — things like movies, sports team... restaurants. Once your pages become objects in the graph...
Open Graph

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Connect. Share. Collaborate.
Elgg is free and open source software
It provides the components you need to start building yo ...
... r other developers to build clients or provide your own.

I've been brainstorming about a way to make a distribute... using OpenID. The goals I have for such a network are:
1. Use OpenID for global identities.
2. If you have an account on service A, and I have an ...
3. Some sort of output format that

Facebook Export uses the Facebook Open Graph protocol to... Facebook data to an xml file. Facebook Export does not s... about you. You can then use this xml file to import your... services and websites that support the Facebook Export (...

FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pag... and music that your friends and family are sharing. It o... to discover and discuss information among friends.
Sign up for FriendFeed, invite some friends, and get a c ...

We already know Facebook is harder to resist than cigare... So it's not all that surprising that Facebook is enjoyab... enjoyable! But like an addictive drug, the results sugge... network might have a sinister effect: Facebook makes you...
That's why

Your social motivation network to explore, create and sh... happiest experiences

I’m now going to briefly explore ‘network whispers‮.. content are shared easily through open platforms, and ye... be masked in the flow of dissemination: does credit alwa... due?

The HAT is the first-ever personal data platform (HATPDP... individuals’ own data for their personal use. Individu... their own data from internet-connected objects or servic... acquired data is then transformed by the HATPDP to enabl...
The HAT is

86th Birthday Rage

Most social networks out there brag about the hundreds o... friends they have online. But, who wants to spend their ... updates from hundreds of millions of "online friends"? Y...
That's where Infinite Monkeys comes in. Our self-service ...
Now, you ca

I felt like Will Smith in "Enemy of the State." I was be... harassed and stalked by criminals with technological exp... thrust into an unexpected war. I felt exposed, vulnerabl... front line. I had awoken a hideous network of villains a... were in pur

Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden int... its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest ... evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace ... technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that...
In this pos

Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden int... its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest ... evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace ... technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that... gaslighting

Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. In ... restricted the visibility of a user's personal informati... friends and their "network" (college or school). Over th...
This blog post by Kurt Opsahl at the the EFF gives a bri ...
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Poyozo gives you your own data back by downloading the i... currently giving to the web on to your own computer. You... importing your data from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, ... Calendar, any email service, any RSS feed, Flickr, Wesab... Skydeck, Do

What is NoseRub?
NoseRub is a protocol.
What currently can be downloaded is just an example impl ...
How is it a »decentralised« social network?
... . You can build anything on top of the NoseRub protocol.

Dive into OpenID
There are a lot of great guides to getting started with ...
* http://www.plaxo.com/api/openid_recipe
* http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/03/OpenID ...
... are still being discussed and evolved by the community.

How to get yourself sacked using Facebook
Personally, I’ve been trying to avoid having too many ...
It can be useful, though, for helping you sack those not ...
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Apache Shindig, a word meaning party, was originally sta... 2007 as a reference container for hosting OpenSocial com... any website. Originally a port of Google's iGoogle gadge... Brian McCallister's PHP code, Apache Shindig through off... and showed

New LinkedIn application: ‘INTRO’
This application must not under any circumstances be use ...
How does INTRO work?
INTRO will divert all email sent and received from the e ...
... y email account could lead to these breaches of the Act:

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Today, our personal data is scattered across a growing n ...

Osama Raid Live Tweets
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Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare e ...
... May 02, 2011, 4:42 AM

WhoTweetedMe.com will analyze a URL and show you its mos... retweeters, potential reach and timeline. Due to Twitter... It works best on blog post URLs that are between 1 day a...