Social information (our preferences, shares, tags, comments, collections, etc.) is the fastest growing and most valuable type of information on the web. We have given the responsibility of stewarding that data to just a couple companies. This is a problem.
We need to rethink social. Does it need to be an end-to-end service where the price of participation is the forfeiture of our data? Does it need to have just a single interface, designed and served by the company that sells our data?
Or can social be a set of protocols and services much like the web? Can social be a network of user controlled datastores and a variety of open source user interfaces? Can social be something we take with us and use anywhere on the web? Can social be something we control?
The purpose of this group is to address these questions and more.
We're looking for engineers, designers, marketers, biz devers, writers, thinkers, schmoozers, and doers of all varieties. If you care about the future of the social web, and you want to make an impact there, you should join.
Let's build the future of social.
November 21, 2011 at 6:00 PM, 7 Social Saviors attended
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