The talk I gave at Open Web Vancouver in April 2008.

1. DiSo & The Open Web
DiSo is an open, distributed social network
diso-project.org
Undertaken by Chris Messina, Steve Ivy, Will Norris,
Stephen Paul Weber et al.

2. Background

3. Employment
Community
Projects
Site-specific browsers
Standards &
Protocols
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

4. CivicSpace
A network of grassroots organizing sites

5. Spread Firefox
A vast collective of volunteer marketers

6. BarCamp
A decentralized community of unstructured event participants

7. Flock
A browser for the distributed social web

8. Coworking
A loose network of shared workspaces

9. Spot the trend?

10. The Starfish and the Spider
The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

11. Social networking
routines...

12. Consuming
Participating
Source: groundswell.forrester.com

13. Adding friends

14. Inviting friends (anti-pattern)

15. Inviting friends (anti-pattern)

16. Inviting friends (the righter way!)

17. Sending messages within networks

18. Seeing what friends are up to

19. Deciding who can see and do what

20. Adding apps

21. Fighting app spam!

22. How we got here

23. bands
college students
professionals
All about the niches bitches!

24. everyone!
everyone!
everyone! (who works)
Then niche sites traded focus to serve “everyone”
:(

26. System-centric
design

27. System-centric
value

28. Source: Le Monde

29. Source: Mick Hagen (mickhagen.com)

30. Users are not the
same thing as
customers!

31. From system-centric
to citizen-centric

32. the web citizen

33. the web citizen
has ID

34. the web citizen
has provenance

35. the web citizen
has friends

36. the web citizen
has enemies

37. the web citizen
has agency

38. Components of the
DiSo model

39. Activities

40. Source: http://adactio.com/extras/stream/

41. Source: http://friendfeed.com

42. Source: http://davidrecordon.com

43. People, friends &
identity

45. Identity consolidation

46. Digg

47. Pownce

48. MyBlogLog

49. FriendFeed

50. Messaging &
notifications

52. bacn!
“Email you want, but not right now.”

53. Permissions

54. Basecamp

55. Plaxo Pulse

56. Flickr & Yahoo! Mash

57. Fire Eagle & Dopplr

58. Groupings

59. Viddler

60. barackobama.com

61. Upcoming

62. DiSo Technologies

63. ATOM +
microformats
http://atomenabled.org/
http://microformats.org/

64. XFN

65. • me • child
• contact • parent
• acquaintance • sibling
• friend • spouse
• met • kin
• co-worker • muse
• colleague • crush
• co-resident • date
• neighbor • sweetheart

66. • me • child
• contact • parent
• acquaintance • sibling
• friend • spouse
• met • kin
• co-worker • muse
• colleague • crush
• co-resident • date
• neighbor • sweetheart

67. rel-me
rel-contact

68. OpenID
http://openid.net/

69. OAuth
http://oauth.net/

70. XRDS-Simple
http://xrds-simple.net/

71. XMPP / Jabber

72. Status

73. diso.googlecode.com
• oauth
• wp-diso-actionstream
• wp-diso-contactlist
• wp-diso-profile
• wp-openid
• wp-xmpp

74. A note about design

75. DiSo & the Open Web

76. More
http://diso-project.org
http://groups.google.com/group/diso
http://diso.googlecode.com
http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/diso
http://flickr.com/groups/diso
http://slideshare.net/group/diso

77. Me
http://factoryjoe.com
http://twitter.com/factoryjoe
http://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe
http://citizenagency.com

78. End.
Neural network images by Mark Miller