Re: [Social-discuss] the applications layer

[Miron Cuperman]

I think it would be ideal to have applications run in a sanboxed
environment that is controlled by the user.  In the FB model, the user's
private data leaks to third party, and from a privacy point of view, all
is lost.

A better model is to run the application in an execution environment
that is firewalled and sandboxed, so that personal and social
information never leaves the control of the user.  This can be achieved
through something like the Java VM model, or through Unix / AppArmor
type of controls.

On 12/03/2010 08:04 AM, Joe Corneli wrote:
> As I understand it, Facebook exploits semi-open information in a
> semi-centralized way.  Instead of the Applications layer being
> something that people can really socialize about, it only supports a
> closed, firm-like, collaboration at that layer.  I hope that Diaspora*
> et al. will support "social apps" that aren't just miniature corporate
> themeparks, but which instead correspond to real "grassroots social
> organizing".  How might that work?
>
> Some analogies:  this might be like adding a "problems" layer on top
> of PlanetMath's mathematics encyclopedia, or like adding a radio drama
> layer on top of the collection of sounds at Freesound.org, or like
> adding a literary discussion layer on top of the collection of public
> domain texts at Project Gutenberg.
>
> Indeed, maybe these aren't just analogies, but could themselves become
> "applications".
>

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Miron Cuperman

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