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Skip to content, sitemap or skip to search. by John Sullivan, Executive Director, and Ward Vandewege, CTO Earlier this year, we announced an instant messaging service for our members using Jabber (XMPP). This service is federated, so like email, you can talk to people whose account is hosted somewhere else than the FSF. Your account is, say, johns@...
The WebID protocol specifies how a Service can authenticate a user after requesting his Certificate without needing to rely on this being signed by a well known Certificate Authority
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/
Imagine a future with ubiquitous open Internet. We're working with a coalition of volunteer engineers to build technologies that will let users open their wireless networks without compromising their security or sacrificing bandwidth. And we're working with advocates to help change the way people and businesses think about Internet service.
, but they are linking only to http://friendi.caA new project for sharing media files might be as important for its philosophy as its features.@Open Web
This 0.1 version is primarily a developer release, which means that it focuses on architecture and infrastructure rather than finish work. The exception to this is privoxy-freedombox, the web proxy discussed in previous updates, which people can begin using right now to make their web browsing more secure and private and which will very soon be available on non-FreedomBox systems.
... I mean, it sounds great in principle, but with all of the excitement stirred up over the last week, nobody's bothered to talk about the harsh reality that it's all nothing more than a pipe dream.And people wonder why I use the word "$cam" when discussing D*.
...A very well-funded pipe dream.
Take a look at what these kids are selling for a moment -- and yes, I said kids, because that's what they are, kids. There isn't even a product here, just a promise, and it's being made by four fixie-hipster computer science majors at NYU who can't even act mature for the four minutes needed to film the video they somehow thought necessary to sell their "idea" to the masses.
What's this super-amazing, fantastical idea they've come up with? It's a distributed social network that would exist as individual nodes, called seeds, which would be owned and operated by the users of the network. Why seeds, you ask? Well, it might have something to do with a little open source project that's been floating around for a few years now, since this idea is so strikingly similar to one that was tried for the first time, in 2005, with a project called Appleseed...
The Bottom Line
... if you donated money to these guys, you didn't participate in some grand assault against Facebook's foothold on the Internet. You probably paid for an appletini or two (of thousands) that will be consumed over the course of the next few summer months ... as they party their faces off. And why shouldn't they? They only asked for $10,000 in pledges. They've just pulled off a heist worthy of a bad Hollywood movie.
lolzUpdate: Salzberg points to Diaspora’s Kickstarter page for a full profit-and-loss report detailing how the $200,000 in Kickstarter donations was spent. He and Grippi will indeed be focusing on Makr.io going forward, but in an email he stressed that they still plan to be very involved with Diaspora:Amazing to think MS sincerely believes that P&L statement will help the D* crew appear less $cam-ta$tic to all those they've conned.
On Hacker News, a social news site started by Paul Graham, one of the founders of Y Combinator, defenders and critics of Diaspora are posting their reactions to the announcement.Always much lulz to be had when D* becomes the topic of conversation on HN.
Diaspora started in New York in April 2010 by four New York University students in the wake of a furious user backlash over new privacy changes enacted by Facebook. Promising to build a new social network that still protected the privacy of users, the students launched a Kickstarter campaign that raised $200,000, including a donation from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.First it was D*, now it's App.net. :hahaha
The project later moved to San Francisco, although by July 2011, the money was gone and the project was $238 in the hole. And in November 2011, co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy, 22, committed suicide.
While Facebook more than survived the backlash (and now has 950 million members), Diaspora's network still numbers only in the thousands, hardly the "Facebook killer" some had predicted. And attention has shifted to another alternative crowd-funded social network called App.net.
Der Erfinder des World Wide Web sagte geschlossenen Apps auf Smartphones oder Tablets den Kampf an und warb stattdessen für eine offene Web-Plattform für Anwendungen auf Basis von HTML5.@Open Web
Copyleft.next is an experimental "-ng"-type version of the GNU General
Public License, version 3. (It is *not* a fork.) Contributions of
patches, ideas, and criticism are welcome. The goal of this effort is
to develop an improved strong copyleft free software license. Needless
to say, no one should actually *use* a development version of
Copyleft.next as an actual license.
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Preamble to the Republic: Condolence, Wampum, and the Language of Peace by SmithsonianNMAI on YouTube
When the United States was founded in 1789, American Indians had nearly 200 years of experience dealing with Europeans. During those years, Native people offered distinct protocols of diplomacy—ceremonies, forms of address, and material culture—that governed relations with the colonial powers. Benjamin Franklin published the record of treaties where these protocols formed the primary construct of negotiation. The oral traditions surrounding and informing the early protocols continue in living memory through elders and ceremonial cycles of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) longhouses. Their material legacy is found in the record of wampum and wampum belts of archeological, cultural and historical value.
At Preamble to the Republic, three representatives from a distinguished traditional family spoke on the history, culture, and meaning of the Great Law of Peace, the clanmother system, and the symbology of the longhouse leadership culture as represented in wampum and other materials.
A venerated elder of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, Chief Jake Swamp is an internationally recognized spokesperson for the traditions of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) longhouse. Ceremonially released from duties as a chief of the Wolf Clan after nearly forty years, he continues his activism as president of the Tree of Peace Society, a global peace and environment initiative. His wife, Judy Swamp, is a traditional elder of the Mohawk Nation, and his son, Skahendowaneh Swamp, is an installed speaker of the longhouse, educator, and traditional artist.
500 Nations The Story of Indian Americans Part 1 by asariisechunkh on YouTube
500 Nations The Story of Indian Americans Part 2 by asariisechunkh on YouTube
500 Nations The Story of Indian Americans Part 3 by asariisechunkh on YouTube
500 Nations The Story of Indian Americans Part 4 by asariisechunkh on YouTube
► 500 Nations - Playlist
► 500 Nations - Wikipedia
"The truth is, we have a story worth talking about. We have a history worth celebrating. Long before the first Europeans arrived here, there were some 500 nations already in North America. They blanketed the continent from coast to coast, from Central America to the Arctic. There were tens of millions of people here, speaking over 300 languages. Many of them lived in beautiful cities, among the largest and most advanced in the world. In the coming hours, 500 Nations looks back on those ancient cultures, how they lived, and how many survived.... What you're about to see is what happened. It's not all that happened, and it's not always pleasant. We can't change that. We can't turn back the clock. But we can open our eyes and give the first nations of this land the recognition and respect they deserve: their rightful place in the history of the world." -- Kevin Costner
#6. The Indians Weren't Defeated by White Settlers...
#5. Native Culture Wasn't Primitive...
#4. Columbus Didn't Discover America: Vikings vs. Indians...
#3. Everything You Know About Columbus Is a Calculated Lie...
#2. White Settlers Did Not Carve America Out of the Untamed Wilderness...
#1. How Indians Influenced Modern America...Historians think the Iroquois Confederacy had a direct influence on the U.S. Constitution, and the Senate even passed a resolution acknowledging that "the confederation of the original thirteen colonies into one republic was influenced ... by the Iroquois Confederacy, as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the constitution itself."
But as Ben Franklin noted in a letter..."It would be a strange thing if six nations of ignorant savages should be capable of forming a scheme for such a union and be able to execute it in such a manner as that it has subsisted ages and appears insoluble; and yet that a like union should be impracticable for 10 or a dozen English colonies."In 1987, Cornell University held a conference on the link between the Iroquois' government and the U.S. Constitution. It was noted that the Iroquois Great Law of Peace "includes 'freedom of speech, freedom of religion ... separation of power in government and checks and balances."
Join, or die (or plagiarize from the Indians).
's gonna totally pwn FB any day now! (hardware permitting of course) :gravesideWe are now at a moment, a crossroad in history and time, where the decisions we make about the #Internet, and its importance to our lives and #freedoms, will have lasting effects for many years, decades, or perhaps far longer.@Open Web
Will the Internet be sucked completely into the pit of oppression, censorship, and greed, or will we have the moral fortitude to say, "No! Not to our Internet. Not to what we worked so long and hard to achieve in the name of freedom, humanity, and community."
It was 1991...
... This is the golden age of global communications, a time when ordinary people almost anywhere in the world have or will likely soon gain the capability of dealing directly with counterparts in other countries, other cultures, with an array of different lifestyles and circumstances.
The question is, how long will this freedom be permitted to exist?
When people have the easy and inexpensive means to communicate directly, especially in informal settings and about the everyday aspects of life, they usually discover that they have much more in common than they perhaps expected. This seems true whether we're using written communications, or audio and video links like Skype or #Google+ Hangouts -- working our way ever closer toward a full "virtual presence" that makes our common humanity impossible to ignore.
And frankly, I believe that such capabilities genuinely worry some governments around the world, for whom maintaining a certain level of "us vs. them" sensibilities is considered crucial to their control regimes...
... I spend much of my time considering the ways in which the wonders of the Internet could be wrecked, or blocked, or subverted. But it's also important that we consider the vast potential the Net holds for improving the world in the most relevant and important of ways.
Not just in terms of science and research, though those are great. Not just in regard to commerce and the global economy, though these are crucial.
But also in terms of the basic fact of fundamental human communications, of being able to as freely and openly as possible discuss with other mere mortals around the planet the nature of our lives, hopes and dreams, our loves, and yes, our fears as well.
Personal communications capabilities of these sorts, enabled by technology in general and the #Internet in particular, have more potential to save the world in the long run than do all the governments on the globe.
--Lauren--
= Pure Awesomeness! 
Nate Elliott, an analyst with the interactive marketing firm Forrester, wrote on his blog: "We wish we could predict this IPO would serve as a new beginning for Facebook's marketing offering, and that a new focus on becoming a grown-up business would inspire the company to put even half the energy into serving advertisers that it does into serving users."But we doubt Zuckerberg's going to wake up any day soon having acquired a taste for advertising, or even a proper understanding of it. And so every day more smart marketers are going to wake up and look for other places to dedicate their social resources."
I think that's all because Windows still ships by default on the majority of PCs.
