Comments on: bar : sex :: social networking site : spam http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2007/11/22/social-spam/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:51:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: paolo http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2007/11/22/social-spam/#comment-97159 paolo Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:35:26 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2007/11/22/social-spam/#comment-97159 > I am mildly surprised that although trust is perhaps the most interesting feature of social networks, as far as I know nobody has done anything interesting with them (at least social networking sites) in this respect. I tried to do something about it, now the fact that what I've done is interesting is totally another thing ;-) http://gnuband.org/papers/ > I am mildly surprised that although trust is perhaps the most interesting feature of social networks, as far as I know nobody has done anything interesting with them (at least social networking sites) in this respect.

I tried to do something about it, now the fact that what I’ve done is interesting is totally another thing ;-)
http://gnuband.org/papers/

]]> By: Gavin Baker http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2007/11/22/social-spam/#comment-96925 Gavin Baker Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:12:02 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2007/11/22/social-spam/#comment-96925 I learned just how painful it was to kick Facebook when I went cold turkey, in preparation of deleting my account entirely. (It still hasn't quite happened; I want to get my photos out first, which I haven't gotten around to doing.) It had become a de facto address book for me, plus a key means of communicating (messages, wall posts), organizing (groups, events), and keeping up with my friends (stalking). I had completely overlooked how much of my social life was held hostage by proprietary software, where I didn't even have control of my own data. Never again! I learned just how painful it was to kick Facebook when I went cold turkey, in preparation of deleting my account entirely. (It still hasn’t quite happened; I want to get my photos out first, which I haven’t gotten around to doing.) It had become a de facto address book for me, plus a key means of communicating (messages, wall posts), organizing (groups, events), and keeping up with my friends (stalking). I had completely overlooked how much of my social life was held hostage by proprietary software, where I didn’t even have control of my own data. Never again!

]]>