Kolya on 8/8/2010 at 11:14
Quote Posted by Shakey-Lo
social networking that is not beholden to corporate interests.
You pay for the service of facebook et al with your private data. How would a free social networking site be paid for?
Shakey-Lo on 8/8/2010 at 12:06
How is email paid for?
Kolya on 8/8/2010 at 16:42
Do you actually believe the internet fell from the heavens or are you being deliberately obtuse now? You pay your internet provider for email services.
And I pointed out to you that a social network that is not beholden to corporate interests will need some other forms of financing, eg donations.
demagogue on 8/8/2010 at 18:30
I thought Wave was good for chatting with another person like when you're doing a Skype video phone call; you have Wave going at the same time to post pictures and chat and copy/paste text and things. I don't like how limited the Skype chat is when you're talking to someone directly. That's about the only use for it that stuck with me, but I liked it for that.
Shakey-Lo on 9/8/2010 at 04:25
Quote Posted by Kolya
Do you actually believe the internet fell from the heavens or are you being deliberately obtuse now? You pay your internet provider for email services.
And I pointed out to you that a social network
that is not beholden to corporate interests will need some other forms of financing, eg donations.
I am talking about a replacement for email, not a replacement for facebook. That's my whole point. It would not be a branded site, but a platform on the same level as email or FTP. So, like email, you would pay your internet provider for the transmission of data and nothing else. It could be developed academically, or open source.
I don't know why you're being so antagonistic when I was just making an observation. In my last post I was simply trying to make a point by asking a question. Socrates style.
Matthew on 9/8/2010 at 10:29
I know a lot of pen and paper role-players on another site I visited were very keen on using Wave to replicate a 'round the table' sort of feeling for planning and discussions.
Kolya on 9/8/2010 at 13:26
@Shakey-Lo: Sorry, your Socrates style came off more like a snide remark to me. And as you were talking about a
"platform for social networking" before I assumed you meant a hosted website or web-application, like facebook and Wave. SMTP (email) and FTP are application protocols. Actually a social networking protocol is a good idea, specifically if it works as a decentralized peer to peer network using distributed hash tables ((
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table) DHT) like (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet) Freenet.
demagogue on 14/8/2010 at 00:38
A "social networking platform" for the "open-source community"? It sounds like trusting physics post-grads to throw a good keg party and expecting everyone to show up. Well, Firefox got away with it; so anything is possible.
Fafhrd on 14/8/2010 at 00:59
Diaspora has been around for a while, but nothing's come of it. It's vapourware.
