Comments on: On Twitter and Vulnerability http://www.contentious.com/2009/08/06/on-twitter-and-vulnerability/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:38:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Emil J Leser http://www.contentious.com/2009/08/06/on-twitter-and-vulnerability/comment-page-1/#comment-1228562 Emil J Leser Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:53:39 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/?p=2747#comment-1228562 So much for the backup plan. Friendfeed was just bought by Facebook. Hopefully someone out there is making a good replacement for FF. So much for the backup plan. Friendfeed was just bought by Facebook. Hopefully someone out there is making a good replacement for FF.

]]> By: ARJWright http://www.contentious.com/2009/08/06/on-twitter-and-vulnerability/comment-page-1/#comment-1228469 ARJWright Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:55:21 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/?p=2747#comment-1228469 Greg; for something like that to happen, there needs to be two fundamental changes to the internet: (1) people need to take ownership of their data and how they allow services to connect to that data; and (2) websites need to function as brokers of social connections, not as brokers, stores, garages, and houses of social objects and their connections. Its very possible for this to happen, but it will take something larger than twitter/facebook falling over for people to realize and change this. On a technological side, its already possible to run personal web servers (mobile or otherwise), possible to use authenticated services (OpenID, Flickr's old style of authenticating against its API, etc.), and possible for people to actually read the terms of service before signing up for these social networks. But this means changing behaviors and expectations, and last I recall, folks weren't doing that willingly. Greg; for something like that to happen, there needs to be two fundamental changes to the internet: (1) people need to take ownership of their data and how they allow services to connect to that data; and (2) websites need to function as brokers of social connections, not as brokers, stores, garages, and houses of social objects and their connections.

Its very possible for this to happen, but it will take something larger than twitter/facebook falling over for people to realize and change this.

On a technological side, its already possible to run personal web servers (mobile or otherwise), possible to use authenticated services (OpenID, Flickr’s old style of authenticating against its API, etc.), and possible for people to actually read the terms of service before signing up for these social networks. But this means changing behaviors and expectations, and last I recall, folks weren’t doing that willingly.

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]]> By: Greg Linch http://www.contentious.com/2009/08/06/on-twitter-and-vulnerability/comment-page-1/#comment-1228451 Greg Linch Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:46:00 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/?p=2747#comment-1228451 Today's outage only heightened my interest in something that Dave Winer has been discussing, somewhat related to the OpenID/OpenSocial concepts: making Twitter like the Web -- something that no corporation controls and would not be vulnerable to such attacks. A decentralized system not tied to character limits or a single Web site. Today’s outage only heightened my interest in something that Dave Winer has been discussing, somewhat related to the OpenID/OpenSocial concepts: making Twitter like the Web — something that no corporation controls and would not be vulnerable to such attacks. A decentralized system not tied to character limits or a single Web site.

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