In “normal” social interaction, no single individual is put in a place where they are able to exercise that extent of control over the other participants.

Also, have a look at this interesting article about how “the assumed norms of the crowd are to the detriment of individuals’ privacy”…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8446649.stm

Clearly impossible. You must be wrong about this existence of your’s, and you compound your error, very clearly, by claiming to also have an opinion — and worse one that matters.

I’m sure that if you repent, you will be quoted correctly in the article that covers that.

Almost a user-centric (as opposed to organization-centric) model … can’t be.

Happy Holidays!!!

Check the Wikipedia link for ino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days

You say that XRI and XDI were invented “out of the ether”. While it’s true that the former represents a new identifier format and the later a new structured data sharing protocol, both are based on existing Web techhologies (URIs, HTTP, XML, RDF) just like almost any other approach to a Social Web of which I am aware.

And as I think you know, XRI and XDI have been slowly growing “towards the mainstream” as interest in a distributed social web continues to grow, and as the need for mechanisms that will let users control the flow and sharing of their own personal data continue to mount up.

So I’m a big supporter of anything that gets us to a true distributed social web, but please don’t discount XRI and XDI because they are trying, as open standards, to help solve the problem. There was a time when HTML, HTTP, and URIs were all new open standards too.

Best,

=Drummond
http://xri.net/=drummond

Thanks for your comments and for visiting Nokia’s Ideasproject website. It’s absolutely true we have to do a better job of representing women on the site. We all know that the gender balance is not 50/50 in the technology world — even, weirdly, the social media world..but that is no excuse. We just interviewed two female new Ideators last week, a step towards a better ratio…and plan to make it a priority in the next year. Hopefully in the coming months we’ll be able to attract Big Ideas from more women — you’re right that there are a lot brilliant female voices out there.

Valerie Buckingham, Forum Nokia Developer Communities

The number of people/companies interested in these ideas at the time was very small. The notion of open standards needed to support a whole soon to happen ecology of social networks was ahead of its time. My hope is that the thinking of those involved in these early days can be tapped by newer emerging communities working on the same kinds of ideas.

A key element that XRI has that will be super useful to the emerging social web and distributing it is abstraction – I wrote about it in this post – mid way down.

Identity Commons 1 is quite different then the IC community now – the current model is about linking existing efforts together like OpenID, InfoCards, OSIS, and could also include projects like OAuth, DiSo, Microformats that are related but different – a linking brand for these efforts that all share a vision of user-control and open standards. We don’t know the “answer” for the challenge of successfully representing people online and the complexities of their social network – we do know that working together and out of these kinds of efforts innovation and solutions will emerge.

I too look forward to finding the Delta between the big vision presented in the two papers I linked to and the current market place.

I agree with you that the Diso concept is not wholly original — and indeed, I was influenced by Identity Commons in some of my thinking on the subject. I think two of the main differences that set apart the Diso Project from Identity Commons is heritage and approach.

I started the Diso Project because I was frustrated with the failure of the microformats initiative to show any real end-user benefit. After promoting microformats for two years, the kind of distributed social web that I wanted just wasn’t materializing, even though I felt like we had the basic building blocks ready to go. The Diso Project was intended to galvanize the community to apply microformats and similar technologies to the problem of distributing the social web.

As for the approach — where XDI and XRI were invented out of the ether (to the best of my knowledge) — the Diso Project has tried to invent as little as possible and to reuse wherever feasible. It may mean that we don’t arrive at clean APIs like the ones found in the Facebook platform, but at least adoption can be achieved incrementally, because the implementation cost is so much lower.

While I think that a lot of the ideas that you presented in 2004 continue to be just beyond our reach, we are making progress — though largely by being conservative with the technologies that we build and their initial capabilities (OpenID being a great example of that kind of design). I am interested to see the delta between what’s emerging from the marketplace and the ideas that were presented in your whitepaper.

Until you brought it up here, I barely remembered “The IDEAS Project.” If you had asked me what it was, I wouldn’t have had a clue. I remember being pulled aside at a Nokia party on the roof of a building at SXSW in March, giving an interview, and going back to the party. I just checked back through old emails and found that I had been navigated there by a friend who was involved in the project. For what it might matter, that person was a woman.

I had assumed it was a Nokia project. I didn’t know Monitor Talent was involved. As it happens Monitor Talent is here in Cambridge (where I’m based these days). A couple years ago I had thought that Monitor might consider representing my Talent. I met with some people there and nothing came of it. Whatever the reason for that, it wasn’t because I’m female.

For what it’s worth, the number of women interviewed for the IDEAS Project was seven, not five. That comes to about 14%. According to Kirrily Robert’s presentation on women in open source, the tech industry average is 20%, but the average among open source developers is much lower: 10% for Drupal, 5% for Perl, 1..5% for Drupal overall. As she also points out, there was just one woman at the Linux Kernel Summit. This squares with the readership of Linux Journal, where female readership is in the low single digits. This is at a magazine that is owned and run by women. We’ve tried to raise the percentage. It ain’t easy.

You also say you see “No one under the age of 30 and not that many under the age of 40.” How about the number over the age of 60? I count just one: me. Not that I care. (I really don’t.)

I think there are several overlapping problems here. One is a demographic imbalance of highly lopsided dimensions, for which there are many bad causes, some very deep and long-standing. Another is lame conferences that keep inviting the same yakkers to stand on stage or sit on panels. (This IDEAS thing holds a mirror up to that system.) Another is the buzz business of Twitter and blogging and traffic-driving, which also tends to smoke its own exhaust.

You know how to fix all that? Do exactly what you’re doing already.

It’s interesting to me that you’re complaining about broken systems you’re already doing a great job replacing. You’re doing it with IIW (which is very much your show, and quite successful — as a productive thing, rather than as a show business thing, for which I say Bravo). You’re doing it with Open Space, for which you are by far the most vigorous and effective advocate and practitioner on the whole planet. You’re doing it with She’s Geeky, with this blog… the list goes on and on.

You need to face the fact that you rock. You don’t need ordinary conferences and other Business As Usual crap to give you validation. You’re doing great.

Keep it up.

Doc

I have a strong sense of urgency, that something must be done about this. I have some of the credentials, and I’ve written papers, presented at conferences, and developed/designed a plethora of websites. The decisions is that moving forward I can continuing to learn new technologies and techniques in my spare time, or spend my time telling people about what I already know. This reminds me of an observation I had over a year ago when twitter was beginning to flood with social media *experts*. There’s often a division between people that do technology, and people that write about technology. And now I see a new division – one between the people who’s careers depend on public speaking engagements (authors, VCs, consultants), and those people who’s careers depend on executing (entrepreneurs, developers, engineers, designers). Some people are lucky to be able to do both, and one day I’d like to call myself one. But for now I’m too busy doing technology, a.k.a. too many ideas for projects and not enough time.

Of course, these postings could be taken as a “solicitation to buy” which could run afoul of the CA law…

http://www.rightsideup.net/?p=273

Cheers

Iain