Comments for DataCosmos http://www.datacosmos.com The Next Web Experience Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:13:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Slave laborers by Aaron http://www.datacosmos.com/2011/11/slave-laborers/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Aaron Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:13:33 +0000 http://www.datacosmos.com/?p=61#comment-26 You have summed up quite well some of the unspoken problems of social networks as they exist right now. Data mining is a huge industry making billions off the content that we the 'factory worker' bring and distribute on these sites. I would really like to see a viable competitor that actually rewards and pays its workers based on the quality of the content provided. It could be a huge win/win for everyone involved. One site that I am fond of is Reddit and am interested in how the community regulates and rewards its self for good and bad content. Lets stop being slaves... after I check my status update. You have summed up quite well some of the unspoken problems of social networks as they exist right now. Data mining is a huge industry making billions off the content that we the ‘factory worker’ bring and distribute on these sites. I would really like to see a viable competitor that actually rewards and pays its workers based on the quality of the content provided. It could be a huge win/win for everyone involved. One site that I am fond of is Reddit and am interested in how the community regulates and rewards its self for good and bad content. Lets stop being slaves… after I check my status update.

]]> Comment on Rethinking Social by Augustin http://www.datacosmos.com/2011/11/rethinking-social/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Augustin Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:25:23 +0000 http://www.datacosmos.com/?p=46#comment-15 Hmm... you present some interesting points. To clarify, this wouldn't just be a social feed aggregator where you could pull in data from all the social networks and publish to them all with a single click. That doesn't solve the problems of privacy or control, nor does it let developers build interfaces that query your social data in interesting new ways. Also, since your data would reside on a server of your choosing, and that server wouldn't need to allow anyone other than your friends to access it, data-mining wouldn't be as easy. You'd never have to 'Let this application access your data' in order to use it. Security is another matter. Distributed systems need to be secure by design, and can't rely on obfuscated "closed" code to be secure. That's the topic of another post... Hmm… you present some interesting points. To clarify, this wouldn’t just be a social feed aggregator where you could pull in data from all the social networks and publish to them all with a single click. That doesn’t solve the problems of privacy or control, nor does it let developers build interfaces that query your social data in interesting new ways.

Also, since your data would reside on a server of your choosing, and that server wouldn’t need to allow anyone other than your friends to access it, data-mining wouldn’t be as easy. You’d never have to ‘Let this application access your data’ in order to use it.

Security is another matter. Distributed systems need to be secure by design, and can’t rely on obfuscated “closed” code to be secure. That’s the topic of another post…

]]> Comment on Rethinking Social by Horrible pessimist http://www.datacosmos.com/2011/11/rethinking-social/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Horrible pessimist Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:47:12 +0000 http://www.datacosmos.com/?p=46#comment-13 With the exception of possible interfaces and forms it sounds like making a personal html page and communicating via e-mail. Really a meta-app letting people communicate between different sites is more likely to de-centralize social networking. It could be an app if it weren't way too late. Zynga sort of does it. A "trillian" for social networking sites would be even more centralized and that would be the eventuality either way. It all sort of lends itself to monopoly. I don't know if a cloud sort of thing would be more or less susceptible to data mining. Your security sort of depends on everyone else's in that case. Mylife.com or whatever always pops up when you google real people because every social networking site has been totally data strip-mined. It almost makes more sense to make facebook more customizable. With the exception of possible interfaces and forms it sounds like making a personal html page and communicating via e-mail. Really a meta-app letting people communicate between different sites is more likely to de-centralize social networking. It could be an app if it weren’t way too late. Zynga sort of does it. A “trillian” for social networking sites would be even more centralized and that would be the eventuality either way. It all sort of lends itself to monopoly. I don’t know if a cloud sort of thing would be more or less susceptible to data mining. Your security sort of depends on everyone else’s in that case. Mylife.com or whatever always pops up when you google real people because every social networking site has been totally data strip-mined. It almost makes more sense to make facebook more customizable.

]]> Comment on Building Momentum by Andy Bralley http://www.datacosmos.com/2011/11/building-momentum/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Andy Bralley Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:24:23 +0000 http://www.datacosmos.com/?p=12#comment-4 Good write up... keep it going, big things always start out small... persisitence makes all the difference. Good write up… keep it going, big things always start out small… persisitence makes all the difference.

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