Archive for June, 2007

Call for action: Let’s decentralize photo sharing!

Shameless crosspost from the Flickr forums FlickrCentral discussion

Why move to another social data silo where censorship can happen again? It is time to think about decentralized alternatives to Flickr & Co. While the blogosphere shows that it is possible, we can also do it with photo sharing.
Check out the open source project Atomique. In the […]

Still early release: 0.0.3

This is another release for you. The main improvement of this version is that photo groups now also aggregate tags. They are displayed in a nifty tag cloud (see above) and you can browse group photos by those tags. To install this release anew, check out the install procedure and the known issues.
Remember: Atomique […]

We have a mailinglist (update)

To better coordinate progress, discuss things and tackle problems i have started a mailinglist over at the big G. It is open and everybody can join. So feel free and pitch in into the discourse about Atomique and decentralized social software in general.
Update: Even though it doesn’t seem like it, but you don’t need a […]

The unbearable lightness of censorship

On my personal blog i have ranted* more than once about centralized communities where censorship is technically possible. After we have seen how YouTube deletes thousands of videos due to copyright claims now another Web 2.0 prime example gets bad karma from its community. Flickr employed censorship-like mechanisms filtering photos flagged as ‘moderate’ or ‘restricted’ […]