Category Archives: Problems

All for one and one ToS for all

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Jonny

One of the issues raised by the critical friends in the lead up to the pitch was how terms of service would be managed if we were going to be using the image on a large number of social networks, … Continue reading →

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To SQL or not to SQL?

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Jonny

The first version of the prototype (running on this website) used MySQL to store the tags. This was fine but called for a much more complicated layout when we began to deal with multiple accounts, some people having just one … Continue reading →

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State of the prototype(s)

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Jonny

Throughout the project as we experimented with different ideas we have created different prototypes to try them out in an isolated setting. In this post I will go over some of the prototypes created so far. In a future post … Continue reading →

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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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Establishing ownership of a domain

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Jonny

In order to allow a site owner to control settings about tagging on their site/images, we first need to establish who they are. To do this we decided to follow the same model used by Google Apps and a number … 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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Privacy settings

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Jonny

Privacy is a big concern when grouping photographs of people together. Facebook has very complex privacy settings to decide who can see which photos and we need to consider this carefully. First to be considered is the privacy of the … 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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OAuth

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Jonny

With so many servers running independently of each other on the etags network, there needs to be a way to give a server permission to access parts of a user’s social networking profile, without handing over the entirety of a … Continue reading →

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A proposal for a decentralised image tagging service

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Jonny
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