Tag Archives: Decentralisation

A Single identity

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Jonny

One problem which I noticed which was missed by the critical friends (and us, until just now) is that there is still no way to tag your friends if they are only on myspace and you are not. As long … Continue reading →

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Decentralisation through the help of Semantic Web Technologies.

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Deep

Social networking sites now are limited to the management of user accounts that are present in their own network. But there is a need to address the cross networking linkage where a user doesn’t have to bother about the multiple … Continue reading →

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What’s being Researched on Decentralised Social Networking

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Bharat

1. Decentralisation: The Future of Online Social Networking Problems Addressed:- Potential privacy and Information access limited to respective social networking sites. Suggested Solution: – A decentralised social networking framework. Advantages:- High level of user interaction. Users have higher control of … Continue reading →

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Peer to Peer

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Jonny

Peer-to-peer is “The sharing of computer resources and services by direct exchange between systems” (Ding, et al., 2004). This was initially created to allow for higher performance by connecting computers together directly without needing to be coordinated by a central … Continue reading →

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Week 8

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Jonny

Today we were joined by Richard Gomer, who is acting as a critical friend to Tag4Fun and provides an external viewpoint on the project. This week we started by discussing and finalising the scope of idea. There were some concerns … Continue reading →

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All about timing – response to Jonny’s replies for my questions and proposal

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Larry Lan

All about timing. I think the idea of being part of decentralisation is a little bit early and optimistic for our system. I agree that monopoly (such as Facebook) will be replaced someday by a democratic system but we’re not … Continue reading →

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Proposal: Two part prototype

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Jonny

I propose that rather than the simple idea with started with (tagging any image anywhere as long as you use the etags javascript library/plugin) we instead separate this into two parts. The decentralised data store (called… etags) which could act … Continue reading →

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Proposed Architecture

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Jonny

(Note that this is proposed before we have completed the research on linked data – so this is subject to change) This first thing to notice is that there are many eTags servers in existence – the “official” one existing … Continue reading →

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