On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:54:29PM -0700, Joe Blaylock wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 15:46 -0400, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote: > > Yes. Except that I want anyone to be able to change their own experience, > > and > > limit who they share their information with. In practice I think that will > > mean the user interface will change very fast and be much more diverse, > > because > > it will have 300 million people contributing to its improvements instead of > > 300. > > So you want Geocities with some minimal imposed structure and an > attached messaging scheme?
No, not at all, although I do anticipate a Geocities-like or pouet-like diversity of visual themes. On Geocities you could only change your own pages, not how you saw everybody else's pages, and, until the wide adoption of CSS, you couldn't even copy a style from someone else's page to your own automatically. What I have in mind is, say, I add a new heuristic to the UI I use to filter spam out of my comments, and share it with my friends so they can add the same heuristic to their copy of the same UI with a single click. Also Geocities was centralized, so many of the pages hosted on it have been lost now, even though people were interested in them. The big benefit that Facebook, or MySpace, has over Geocities is not that it has messaging, but that the data is sufficiently semantically rich to support things like "delete this post", "show me several posts on one page", "hide the rest of this post until the user clicks on it", "the intersection between this event's attendee list and my friends list", and so on. Maybe you see that as "imposed structure" but I don't think it is. -- To unsubscribe: http://lists.canonical.org/mailman/listinfo/kragen-discuss
