Federated Social Web, Arguments why to do this

1. Reinvent with the power of the
people
Dipl. Ing. Dan Romescu
The Augmented Ci<zen Advocate
@dromescu

2. Natural Organiza<on:
Spider and the Starfish

3. Distributed structures in nature
Ants colony

4. Why to decentralize?
• 1. When a)acked, a decentralized organiza5on tends to become
even more open and decentralized
• 2. It’s easy to mistake starfish for spiders
• 3. An open system doesn’t have central intelligence; the
intelligence is spread throughout the system ( swarm
intelligence)
• 4. Open systems can easily mutate
.

5. Roman Empire vs. A<lla
Central System vs. Unions of tribes

6. At the end were just ruins…

7. Federated versus Monolith
Poli<cal Systems – Cold war

8. More arguments to decentralize
• The decentralized organiza5on sneaks up on you:
• For a century, the recording industry was owned by a handful of corpora<ons, and then a bunch of hackers altered
the face of the industry. We’ll see this paSern repeat itself across different sectors and in different industries .
• 6. As industries become decentralized, overall profits decrease but social efficiency is
growing:
• The combined revenues of the remaining four [music industry giants] were 25 percent less than they had been in
2001. Where did the revenues go? Not to P2P players [Napster]. The revenue disappeared .
• 7. Put people into an open system and they’ll automa5cally want to contribute:
• People take great care in making the ar<cles objec<ve, accurate, and easy to understand [on Wikipedia] .
• 8. When a)acked, centralized organiza5ons tend to become even more centralized:
• As we saw in the case of the Apaches and the P2P players, when aSacked decentralized organiza<ons become even
more decentralized.

9. Linux – Open and Decentralized

10. Microso] with Windows

11. The History of Social Networking
or how do we created Social Monoliths

12. Social Monolith Proper<es
• otal Control
T
• o sustainable systems, based just on buy
N
growth
• lock Innova<on inside and outside the
B
ecosystem
• ho owns at the end our the Data?
W
• nswer: Facebook, TwiSer, Google – not US
A

14. Federated Social Web
• Protocols • Plaborms
– XMPP • Diaspora
– WebID • BuddyCloud
– OpenID • Elgg
• Drupal
– OStatus
• Statusnet
• Crabgrass
• Nosferoo
• Social Stream

15. FSW Proper<es
• Green Space
• People engagement
• Sustainable ( Linux of SoN )
• Virtuos cycle of Feedback
Loop

16. Virtuos Cycle of the Feedback Loop

18. The Map of the World

19. New Social Paradigms

20. oStatus Suite
• Webfinger
• LRDD
• Atom
• Ac<vityStreams
• Pubsubhubbub
• Salmon
• Portable Contacts

21. • Thank you very much,
Dan Romescu
• @dromescu