I'd suggest first figuring out why someone would pick a P2P social network over Facebook, from a perspective of legitimate functionality rather than just privacy (which as Facebook has demonstrated, isn't a killer feature). I'd suggest really emphasizing the fact that with P2P-Book, there is no "uploading" photos or videos: you can share entire folders of files, videos, documents, or whatever and their instantly available to your friends -- without first uploading them somewhere else.
Furthermore, emphasize that you're not sharing *copies* of the videos, songs, and photos -- you're sharing the originals: change the original (crop, reorient, touch up, tag with metadata, etc) and its automatically updated. -david On 01/17/2011 12:51 PM, Jan Domański wrote: > Hey Michael, > > Thanks for the comments, they're helpful. > > A lot of this boils down to having two (or more) 'sides' of self. One > for general public, others for the rest; this is doable. > > Grudge-friendly and jackboot resistant, in ideal world, comes with the > 'distributed' and 'secure+encrypted'. But sure, seems to have been lost > in the implementation of at least one social network i can think of. > > As to the grandmother compatibility, at least to me, this is not > absolutely essential at first. > > Cherio, Jan > > 2011/1/16 Michael Rogers <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Hi Jan, > > Here's a quick list of features I'd like to see in any social network > (not just P2P ones): > > * Grandmother-compatible. It should be possible to be friends with my > grandmother without her seeing the photo of the time I did that thing > with the grapes. > > * Alcohol-compatible. There should be something as easy to remember as > an email address that I can give to random people I befriend while > drunk. And if they look me up the next day, there should be a polite way > of not responding. > > * Schoolproof. People should not be able to find my profile just because > we went to school together 20 years ago. Similarly, people should not be > able to find my profile just because I applied for a job at their > company (or at least, they shouldn't be able to see the photo of the > thing with the grapes). > > * Grudge-friendly. It should be possible to move my data from one > provider to another when the current provider accuses me of lacking > integrity because I don't want my grandmother to see the photo etc etc. > > * Jackboot-resistant. The Tunisian government should not be able to > steal my password by setting up a fake login page. > > Cheers, > Michael > > On 15/01/11 20:35, Jan Domański wrote: > > Hello everybody out there interested in p2p social networking, > > > > I'm doing a (free) p2p social network (just a hobby, won’t be big and > > professional like diaspora). It has been in the works since > summer, and > > begins to get some shape. I'd like any feedback on things people > > like/dislike in the idea of a p2p social network and how this is > solved > > by the little toy. > > > > I've currently written it in java, netty handles the networking, > Qt is > > used for GUI. Some yml for configs and db4o for storage. Non-blocking > > xml (XMPP) parser is a missing puzzle. The app has been run only on a > > single machine, but it's already practical and I'd like to know what > > features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I > > won’t promise I’ll implement them :] > > > > Two demos (the top one is new) below, gitorious and blog links inside > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAwCsYt16w > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1dujrhGvBQ > > > > Jan ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>) > > > > PS. Yes - it's all my own work and done as a scientist not a > programmer, > > which has terrible implications for code ;) > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > p2p-hackers mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
