{"id":3061,"date":"2011-09-06T15:56:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T22:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2024-01-20T05:04:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T05:04:35","slug":"what-can-diaspora-learn-from-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/09\/06\/what-can-diaspora-learn-from-google\/","title":{"rendered":"What can Diaspora* learn from Google+?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last year&#8217;s Blue Hat conference, I gave a short talk on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=1998 \">What Diaspora* can learn from Microsoft<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 Now, I&#8217;d like to do the same kind of analysis with Google+.<\/p>\n<p>Ten weeks into the G+ experiment, what are the key learnings for a privacy-friendly distributed social network.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few early thoughts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diaspora&#8217;s on the right track.\u00c2\u00a0 Google+&#8217;s &#8220;circle&#8221; concept and page layout look like they&#8217;re based on Diaspora&#8217;s work &#8212; and imitation is the sincerest form of flatter.<\/li>\n<li>Diaspora&#8217;s current functionally + longer posts + easy link sharing + video = enough to get people excited<\/li>\n<li>The estimated 40% of people online who prefer &#8220;screen names&#8221; or pseudonyms are a really good target audience right now.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Geek Feminism&#8217;s excellent list of <a href=\"http:\/\/geekfeminism.wikia.com\/wiki\/Who_is_harmed_by_a_\">Who Is Harmed By a &#8220;Real Names&#8221; policy<\/a> could be the basis of a great go-to-market plan for Diaspora<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2010\/gender-is-a-text-field-diaspora-backstory-and-context\/\">Gender <em>is<\/em> a text field<\/a>, but corporations run by cis guys still don&#8217;t see it that way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your thoughts welcome, either about these ideas or new ones!<br \/>\njon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last year&#8217;s Blue Hat conference, I gave a short talk on What Diaspora* can learn from Microsoft. \u00c2\u00a0 Now, I&#8217;d like to do the same kind of analysis with Google+. Ten weeks into the G+ experiment, what are the key learnings for a privacy-friendly distributed social network.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few early thoughts. Diaspora&#8217;s on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[108,470,164,325],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional","category-tales-from-the-net","tag-diaspora","tag-fediverse","tag-google","tag-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}