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Diaspora’s Kickstarter $$$,$$$ success endangers both Diaspora, Kickstarter & you

The Internets is all buzzing with chatter against Facebook’s latest privacy breaches. Into this happy mix a bunch of NYU students have been cast as the Davids against the social networking Goliath. Is that really a good thing? Can we help?


Friends are there... or are they?

Diaspora is a new initiative by 4 NYU students to create a “privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network” by the end of the summer. A worthy mission indeed with quite an ambitious time line.

 
Projects: ShiftSpace, The Upgrade!, youarenothere
People: Mushon Zer-Aviv
Research: Middle East, Open Culture
Tags: in English, collaboration, crowdfunding, diaspora, facebook, kickstarter, open source, social media, honorary resident

Relationship: It’s Complicated

Ignoring my grandma… friending my enemies… WTF? Is it even reasonable to expect social media to reflect the depth our social life? And when it fails, what do we stand to lose? (+ tips & hacks)


Facebook, in a rare instance of honesty

 
Projects: ShiftSpace, The Upgrade!, youarenothere
People: Mushon Zer-Aviv
Research: Middle East, Open Culture
Tags: Recommended Posts, in English, contacts, echo chamber, facebook, friends, greasemoney, hack, intimacy, politics, privacy, scaling subjectivity, social life, social media, honorary resident

Art Fag City » Dear Eyebeam, Where’s my Sausage Party?

We’ve often thought to ourselves, “If only there was a website that analyzed my facebook events and told me in advance whether I’d be attending a sausage party.”

 
Tags: artfagcity, Press, augmentedreality, facebook, sausageparty, 2010, fellow, eyebeam, aaronmeyers

Invite Everybody

facebook invite everybody

Sick an tired of clicking several hundred times when you want to invite your friends to a Facebook event? Yeah, me too. So I wrote a Greasemonkey script that does it for you. And just to be thorough, I wrote a bookmarklet too (for you non-GM people.)

It is all up at http://TheRedProject.com/scripts along with some other simple utility scripts I wrote, on the newly cleaned up front end to TheRedProject.com, which is my utility & storage domain.

 
Projects: Invite Everybody
People: Michael Mandiberg
Tags: A Partial List of Projects, facebook, greasemonkey, Invite Everybody

State of Emergency on Friday, plus some…

I know, I should write these more often, so there is less to digest in each one. Much activity of late:

1. Permanent State of Emergency

2. New Videos

3. Shows and talks

4. OMG I’m Twittering: http://twitter.com/mandiberg

5. Histoires à l’ère numérique

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1. Permanent State of Emergency

soe_news

April 7 - 28: Eyebeam’s new window gallery in a Permanent State of Emergency

 
People: Michael Mandiberg
Tags: announcements, Exhibitions, eyebeam, facebook, Press, Talks, video
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