Comments | foresto: I (Partially) Give In

foresto

I (Partially) Give In

Mar 26, 2006 00:16

It seems that, over the past few years, livejournal has become the trusted keeper of semi-personal life updates for most of my friends. I guess one of the big social networking sites had to win eventually, for the same reasons that ebay continues to rule online auctions. I just wish our online agora didn't place so much personal information in ( Read more... )

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foseelovechild March 27 2006, 18:42:23 UTC

And in case you couldn't guess by the name and mannerisms, this is boom boom.

kittiliscious March 27 2006, 19:10:38 UTC

I want to be friends! I'm not sure how to do that though. I'll figure it out.

tshuma March 28 2006, 00:00:44 UTC

Go here.

foresto April 8 2006, 05:20:25 UTC

Okay, I made you a friend. Your turn! :)

flonkbob March 27 2006, 19:56:15 UTC

Yeah! So nice to see you here my friend.

ritsa_nicole March 27 2006, 22:37:39 UTC

Welcome to the fold. :)

now we're talking foresto March 28 2006, 07:49:25 UTC

After starting this topic, I began thinking about ways to have my cake (conveniently linking my friends' personal profiles / weblogs) and eat it too (doing so without handing control to a corporation). The answer I kept coming up with was to design a network protocol for exchanging profiles and weblogs between internet servers. If there was a common protocol for doing this stuff, any service that supported the protocol could intermix its own users with users from someplace else. For example, I could store my personal information on thaemos' web server, and all you folks could still link to me as if I was a livejournal user ( ... )