KDE's Project Silk [LWN.net]

KDE's Project Silk

Posted Sep 23, 2009 0:12 UTC (Wed) by alankila (subscriber, #47141)
In reply to: KDE's Project Silk by kragil
Parent article: KDE's Project Silk

It'd be mostly horrible idea to have, say, facebook.com and facebook2.com and then have these sites not integrate seamlessly. The value of many of those sites is in the size of the network. Have two sites and in the worst case both are equally popular and you have just neatly halved the size of the network and thus reduced its value by even more than that.

Anyway, google wave is on the horizon and might be just what everyone wants: social network where all servers interoperate by design, data is not held as hostage on anyone's server but copies of data are passed around to every participant who needs it, anyone can start a server, etc. It could well provide the platform that everyone could live with.

Oh yeah, it's supposed to have open-source frontends and backends as well.

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KDE's Project Silk

Posted Sep 24, 2009 21:29 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Anyway, google wave is on the horizon and might be just what everyone wants: social network where all servers interoperate by design, data is not held as hostage on anyone's server but copies of data are passed around to every participant who needs it, anyone can start a server, etc. It could well provide the platform that everyone could live with.

Sounds just like USENET to me.

KDE's Project Silk

Posted Sep 28, 2009 16:23 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

Then you're not listening :P.

You should take a look at Google Wave - the presentation at wave.google.com is worth watching if you have the time (it's about an hour and 20 minutes).

Of course you might still not like the sound of it, but personally it's the first 'next big thing' idea I can recall seeing which doesn't seem completely pointless.