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Kurt Laitner

Liberationtech, How the Next Generation Diaspora* Should Be Built to Help High-Risk Act... - 0 views

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*YosemEduardoCompanys liberatontech *net diaspora Design

shared by Kurt Laitner on 02 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • design of information and communication technologies to foster freedom, democracy, human rights, development, and effective governance
  • it is important to differentiate between what activists do before a movement and what they do during a movement. 
  • This critical organizing task is done by a small group of people that need to be able to maintain strong ties to one another in a secure and private fashion if they are to succeed.
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  • private, secure, and distributed social network
  • facilitate the communication of a small group of people seeking to organize social change and subsequently enable them to broadcast that message through larger mainstream social networking sites
  • communication must be machine-to-machine
  • In other words, the sender and recipient must have an easy and fast means to install and manage the software on their machines
  •  Furthermore, the sender and the recipient must have the ability to stop using their machines and seamlessly use new ones, should the original machines be compromised for whatever reason by an authoritarian regime
  • “self-destruct mechanism”
  • the “right to forget” would have to be embedded
  • mobile
  • capability of synchronizing data on multiple machines simultaneously.
  • capability to access her data from the alternate location
  • connectivity
  • significant work on data compression will be required to ensure that the software’s performance remains nimble under such disparate conditions
  • Western society gives us two main legal-institutional vehicles for tackling the problem:  i) a for-profit firm a la limited liability company or C corporation; or ii) a non-profit firm a la private foundation or 501(c) organization.  (Another possibility is a hybrid for-profit/non-profit model a la WordPress or Mozilla, but let’s set that aside for now.)
  •  The resources come at a cost in terms of the organization having to perform in a reliable and accountable fashion relative to the expectations of its shareholders.  In the pursuit of profit, principle can easily be abandoned since, at the end of the day, all the shareholders care about is obtaining superior returns
  • Nevertheless, a non-profit organization is still owned by a small group of individuals,
  •  The project may even create disincentives for open-source involvement by creating restrictive intellectual property (IP) assignment contracts that require developers to give up all rights to the code they produce.
  • non-profit organization cannot sell shares
  •  Given this predicament, what are we to do to ensure that the organization is accountable to the activists it serves and can mobilize developers to contribute in an open-source manner to the project?  One possibility is the cooperative, a business organization owned and controlled democratically by its members for mutual benefit.
  • when correctly designed and executed
  • The developers can transfer their IP rights to the cooperative, knowing that such rights will not be exploited for financial gain without them.
  • Kurt Laitner on 02 Dec 11
     
    excellent article on how to build the next generation of infrastructure and what some key themes are.
Jack Logan

Google plans experiment to offer superfast Web | Reuters - 8 views

www.reuters.com/...idUSTRE6193XH20100210

New Network

shared by Jack Logan on 10 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Jack Logan on 10 Feb 10
     
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Wednesday it would build a super high-speed broadband network for up to half a million people around the United States in order to experiment with the possibilities of a network running at 100 times current speeds.
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  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 10 Feb 10
     
    WANT.
  • Jack Logan on 10 Feb 10
     
    I wander how we'd get this?
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 11 Feb 10
     
    wait for Twain-the-connected to get an invite and then beg like we always do.
  • Jack Logan on 11 Feb 10
     
    Twain, ... twain, ... twain ...
  • Kurt Laitner on 16 Feb 10
     
    mmm holographic videoconferences, finally I can build my holochair for board rooms (sit in chair in one boardroom, occupy it holographically in remote boardroom, swivel to face someone in real life, holochair does the same - haven't figured out getting up and walking around yet - that would require a holoroom
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 16 Feb 10
     
    It'll be even better when the guy in the holo-chair next to you can get up and slap you silly while you're napping in the meeting.
  • Kurt Laitner on 16 Feb 10
     
    hey another use for haptic body suits!
Jack Logan

apophenia: Facebook's move ain't about changes in privacy norms - 17 views

www.zephoria.org/...facebooks_move.html

shared by Jack Logan on 17 Jan 10 - Cached
  • When I learned that Mark Zuckerberg effectively argued that 'the age of privacy is over' (read: ReadWriteWeb), I wanted to scream. Actually, I did. And still am. The logic goes something like this: People I knew didn't used to like to be public. Now "everyone" is being public. Ergo, privacy is dead. This isn't new. This is the exact same logic that made me want to scream a decade ago when folks used David Brin to justify a transparent society. Privacy is dead, get over it. Right? Wrong!
  • Jack Logan on 17 Jan 10
     
    Ouch, David Brin ...
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  • Kurt Laitner on 17 Jan 10
     
    zucherberg's position cannot be taken seriously, it is too self serving
  • Jack Logan on 17 Jan 10
     
    David Brin has it right, if right means that we'll all have to give up a great deal more of our privacy - Internet, planes, personal ID (openID), credit cards, et al., - can you think of an area of life that has become more private in the last 10 years?
  • Kurt Laitner on 17 Jan 10
     
    I think the key here is that we cannot believe that this is acceptable or inevitable. 9/11 allowed the US government to remove freedoms with the consent of the population based on their fear. "Those who trade freedom for security deserve neither" (forget the source of that quote, don't feel like looking it up, shouldn't a bot do that for me as soon as I put quotes in?) While I doubt they are this sophisticated, if the militant theocracies who control their populations wanted to destroy the freedoms americans had and make the US more like themselves, they have been winning this war with our consent. There are powerful forces destroying our privacy and freedom. It is time to wake up before the frog gets boiled. Sorry gotta go, black helicopter landing in backyard
  • Jack Logan on 18 Jan 10
     
    LOLROF! There's a black helicopter landing in my backyard too! LOL
  • frank smith on 20 Jan 10
     
    you guys may want to take another look at Brin. I believe his observation is that privacy is going away (has actually been gone for a while). the question he poses is who will have access and control of the surveillance systems. he is advocating that we ALL do rather than centrally controlled organizations.
  • Kurt Laitner on 20 Jan 10
     
    his book is on my shelf, my wife started reading it but stopped as she found it too depressing - it will likely be right up my alley - if we accepted the premise that we would be in a surveilled state then it would be enormously helpful that it was a commons- I do not accept that we should allow this surveilled state to happen, nor that we should accept it as good, even if it is a commons. I also don't believe that it will be a commons. It should not exist, and should be fought every step of the way by people whose minds have not opened so far that their brains have fallen out. It is completely possible with technology to give individuals the power to set levels of privacy to particular counter parties. It is politically possible to regulate the use of surveillance. One can make the argument that people can simply surveil with their camera phones, but you do not see that happening as it would be culturally unacceptable (rude if you will). I find the acceptance of big brother as inevitable troubling.
  • anonymous on 20 Jan 10
     
    David Brin used well thought out logic to make his argument. Zuckerburg is an idiot. He's the face of 1984's Big Brother, except at puberty.
fishead ...*∞º˙

Favilous joins crowded social bookmarking space | VentureBeat - 4 views

venturebeat.com/...owded-social-bookmarking-space

favilous Networking bookmarking

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 30 Jan 10 - Cached
  • A young UK-based startup called Favilous has joined the crowded social bookmarking space. It hopes to differentiate itself from the legions of existing bookmarking services by building a community behind the bookmarks, so users can share descriptions of sites and help each other discover new online destinations (see a clip from one of their tour slides below).
  • On the site, users can see other users’ popular bookmarks as well as the most popular bookmarks in various categories, including “Top Sites” and picks for categories such as food, entertainment, and travel. Once you sign up, you pick a number of categories, for example, blogs or music, that are of interest to you. Favilous populates the top sites in each of those categories, and to edit this list, you need to expand the category to see “all sites” and narrow it down from there, or else enter in a URL manually.
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  • The company plans to make money in 3 ways: by licensing the API to businesses and allowing them to customize Favilous for their own needs; by creating a subscription model to bookmark music playlists (they have reached out to Spotify to allow users to bookmark their playlists); and to possibly look at affiliate relationships and advertise to users, although they are hesitant to do that at this time.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 30 Jan 10
     
    looks like someone's beat us to the punch...
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  • Jack Logan on 30 Jan 10
     
    How so? Is there a revenue model? I didn't see it in the display. Don't like black. Not a good introduction. Where's the music? Where's the art?
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 30 Jan 10
     
    From the highlight: "The company plans to make money in 3 ways: by licensing the API to businesses and allowing them to customize Favilous for their own needs; by creating a subscription model to bookmark music playlists (they have reached out to Spotify to allow users to bookmark their playlists); and to possibly look at affiliate relationships and advertise to users, although they are hesitant to do that at this time." I agree though--I don't like the interface at all, and their usability is very limited. The thing is though, someone's plunked down a bunch of money for these clowns to make this piece of crap, so it just shows that with the right pitch, people will shell out cash for anything. Polish up those red heels Twain, we need a good story to sell.
  • Jack Logan on 30 Jan 10
     
    "Polish up those red heels Twain, we need a good story to sell."
Kurt Laitner

The Emperor's Dilemma: A Computational Model of Self-Enforcing Norms by D. Centola, R.W... - 1 views

amira.amplify.com/...ms-by-d-centola-rwiller-m-macy

shared by Kurt Laitner on 21 May 10 - Cached
  • Kurt Laitner on 21 May 10
     
    interesting results, implied functionality, possibly evil functionality, possibly a way to avoid extremism in online networks, do I dare to eat a peach?
Kurt Laitner

Rands In Repose: A Design Primer for Engineers - 0 views

www.randsinrepose.com/...sign_primer_for_engineers.html

UXD UX IA Design

shared by Kurt Laitner on 20 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • While I’ve spent a good many years soaking in design, I’m not a trained designer and the following descriptions of your history and your craft will piss you off with their simplicity, imprecision, incompleteness, and engineering bias.
  • I do believe working prototypes with sample interaction and animation is a far richer place to have a debate than a whiteboard.
  • My experience with the HCI folk is that they are often brilliant researchers. If you want to understand every possible workflow your users are trying on your application, the elapsed time to complete these workflows, and the enumerated set of quantified emotional damage these workflows are inflicting on your users, find an HCI guy, give him 18 months, and you’ll be <pause> dazzled.
  • Kurt Laitner on 20 Jan 12
     
    very well written, funny as hell, if you've been there..
Kurt Laitner

How javascript will bring on a paradigm shift and a period of unprecedented innovation ... - 1 views

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p2p javascript 'client is server'

shared by Kurt Laitner on 23 Aug 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 23 Aug 10
     
    Isn't this idea soooo 2009? ;) Actually, I quite agree and am very excited about the possibilities. Bent opened this idea to me last year when we were talking about the PNRP protocol already available on Windows machines. I've another friend doing similar things with XMPP and JavaScript (no, not Wave). This is indeed exciting. I wonder how many will jump directly to this architecture as their new hammer? I imagine a lot. It will probably overcomplicate things for a little while. I would really rather see more use of DDD/CQRS (http://groups.google.com/group/dddcqrs). It seems to have a bit more utility in the HTML5 landscape. Time will tell. Cheers! Ryan
Kurt Laitner

bookmarklet - clusters - 0 views

if posting to a group, multiple groups are possible in one posting, and clusters of groups can be defined, both as logical groupings and as equivalencies - those marked as equivalencies are mined b...

feature clusters

started by Kurt Laitner on 21 Feb 10 no follow-up yet
Kurt Laitner

Type specific displays - 2 views

given a node of information, it has a type (video, book, essay, microblog, wave) which has one or more possibly user specific layouts associated with it

feature

started by Kurt Laitner on 04 Jan 10 no follow-up yet
Jack Logan

Jack (5) - Google Wave - 0 views

wave.google.com/wave

CA LLC possibility

shared by Jack Logan on 03 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • Jack Logan on 03 Feb 10
     
    Come on over...
Kurt Laitner

grouping function on people - 1 views

friend lists, should have public and private friend listings possible (you may have one category for the other party to see and another for your own internal organization, filtering, trust, attent...

feature friend lists groups relationship management

started by Kurt Laitner on 01 Feb 10 no follow-up yet
Jack Logan

What are our Verbs? - 9 views

Some verbs I like in this context: share, track, filter, structure, organize, map, list, recommend, create, innovate, learn, debate, decide, choose, motivate, contribute, help, collaborate, open. ...

feature mining verbs

started by Kurt Laitner on 01 Feb 10 3 follow-ups, last by Jack Logan on 03 Feb 10
Kurt Laitner

Feature: Auto group Selection - 20 views

I didn't follow the Common Tag saga, though from the outside it seems a standards effort by small players without the support of the major ones (delicious for example) which is pretty much doomed f...

feature Auto Group Selection

started by Kurt Laitner on 06 Mar 10 8 follow-ups, last by Kurt Laitner on 07 Mar 10
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