Comments on: Social networks, wikis, collaboration tools… Can KDE make them suck less?

By: Education Guidebook

Education Guidebook — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:32:26 +0000

What is the cost for a subscription to the Journal of Web Analytics? I am an Associate Professor at the University of Boston.

By: fb like

fb like — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:16:37 +0000

rockin read, cheers

By: Kylie Sanchez

Kylie Sanchez — Sat, 01 May 2010 12:26:51 +0000

microblogging is really useful when you want to broadcast short updates. i am still leaning towards traditional blogging.”"*

By: Stu

Stu — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:22:24 +0000

@ Stefan. Yep, Wave looks really interesting. I suppose we’ll have to wait and see how these things play out but I am optimistic that things are going to get better

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:49:18 +0000

Hey, maybe I’m holding a hammer…, but it strikes me that Google Wave might be a useful direction to investigate. Google Wave aims at a space somewhere between collaborative editing and communication. One of the major ideas behind Google Wave is to have a protocol that anyone can implement and interact with, the specs are available at http://www.waveprotocol.org/. A prototype server is available at http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/ which can (theoretically at least, I haven’t tried it personally) interact with the googlewave.com servers, and other servers (this is the whole idea). What I’m building up to is that it may make sense to make a KDE client for the Wave protocol.

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:30:57 +0000

@ mario – Yeah, I should have mentioned Silk too For clarification, I don’t have the skills to be much use with this, consider this post more in the category of a bit of a rant due to seeing how well things can work (Kopete) to remove the pain of multiple closed wall networks and the mess that is social networks at the moment (imho)

@ alej – Sure. I imagine the idea is to get commercial providers using ownCloud software too, or for ownCloud to provide it as a service – not everyone wants to run their own stuff. Open standards for communicating can solve a lot of the problems.

By: alej

alej — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:57:40 +0000

If i want to accomodate to the current situation, I think that letting corporations do services is fine because I don’t have to think about availability then. I don’t have to administer anything. On the other hand, they must follow the route of commercialization and mine my data, sell it, advertise, act as a gatekeeper to me etc.

To have all this in a decentralized, jabber like way is a good way – at least the software and platform is free then. Still I think it would be very very nice if all this was built upon some very very basic peer 2 peer technology. Like a distributed hash table or so. That would be ideal and possibly give me absolute control over everything as far as I want that.

By: mario

mario — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:24:31 +0000

you are absolutely right, did you talk to the kde silk people? http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Silk a collaboration could be productive. bye