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February 24, 2008
Look at me, Here in DC
OK so mea culpa. I didn't tell any of you I was coming down but it's for work and I'll most likely be "inside" and heading home. ;)
Although it occurs to me that even despite the Oscars going on some of you might actually be close enough to join me for a drink downstairs.
Alas.
For the record, I'm here in the Hilton Garden Inn on 14th St. and will be at our (IANS) DC Forum at the Reagan Center during the day. Text or tweet me - I'm around.
February 3, 2008
Social Network - Making them Far Better with Trust Relationships and Metrics
It's about time for my annual bitch about the lack of robust, truly protected trust relationships on social networks. Google's announcement and release of the Open Social API has gotten me to thinking about this again and, truth be told, I'm not sure how much closer the OpenID project is to solving this problem.
In order for this to happen, grouping needs to be more explicit - Livejournal continues to do this very well with "Custom Friend Groups" with the exception that we're missing a good set of standard groups we can pull from. Those "groups" might be based on the core XFN values or the vocabulary terms of the FOAF "relationship" schema. At least if every (major) social network utilized one of these as a base, we could get closer to having initial uniformity across the Social Networks (SNs) we use.
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February 2, 2008
Tool for Managing LiveJournal Custom Friends Groups?
I want to get better at managing my Custom Friends Groups. Does anyone know if there's an app or a better GUI for creating groups? I'd love to be able to alias LJ nicks to actual names or how I know people.
With Google knocking out FOAF (Friend-Of-A-Friend) I'm trying to come up with a better trust metric with certain segments of my life that I'm willing to share and then add people to groups according to that metric/subject matter. The current list style is abysmal to try and work through.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I suppose I can build my own through Excel / Word and C&P. It's so FRUSTRATING not being a programmer. So many ideas and absolutely no way to implement them. Are there still sites out there to "hire" programmers' time for quick projects?