Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Architecture and Implementation of a Decentralized Social Networking Platform

"Advertisement-supported social networking portals generally
aim to lock in users’ data and exploit personal information
for ad targeting and other marketing purposes.
Because of the network effect, it is not hard to envision a
situation where the information of a very large population
can end up in the hands of an oligopolistic group or even
a sole monopolistic actor. Beyond the obvious privacy concerns,
this outcome would clearly pose problems for healthy
competition, ultimately harming end-users.”

Interesting paper on Social Networking from Stanford University.

Would like this model than Facebook, which exploits users data to their own advantage.
Download the paper.


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