http://www.atomique.org/blog/service-centered-vs-user-centered/ decentralized and distributed photo sharing Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:08:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.atomique.org/blog/service-centered-vs-user-centered/#comment-13891 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:35:34 +0000 http://www.atomique.org/blog/service-centered-vs-user-centered/#comment-13891 [...] Mit identi.ca ist ein weiterer Offener Service an den Start gegangen - das war jedoch mit Sicherheit nicht der letzte Schritt in Richtung dezentralisierte, offene und User-zentrierte Services. Auf der Website von Evan Prodromou, “Erfinder” von identi.ca, finden sich Gedanken zu offenen sozialen Netzwerken. Es wird wirklich Zeit für offene Alternativen zu studiVZ, Facebook und co.! [...] […] Mit identi.ca ist ein weiterer Offener Service an den Start gegangen - das war jedoch mit Sicherheit nicht der letzte Schritt in Richtung dezentralisierte, offene und User-zentrierte Services. Auf der Website von Evan Prodromou, “Erfinder” von identi.ca, finden sich Gedanken zu offenen sozialen Netzwerken. Es wird wirklich Zeit für offene Alternativen zu studiVZ, Facebook und co.! […]

]]> http://www.atomique.org/blog/service-centered-vs-user-centered/#comment-1082 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:43:57 +0000 http://www.atomique.org/blog/service-centered-vs-user-centered/#comment-1082 [...] Update: I stumbled accross this project yesterday night: Atomique which aims to create a platform for decentralized photo sharing like Flickr. They included a nice graphics which visualizes the differences of today’s platforms with (hopefully) future platforms: service centered vs. user centered platforms. The project itself sounds promising, although it will take some time until people realize that Flickr is a lock-in solution. Check out the FlickrCentral discussion group “Decentralize Flickr”. [...] […] Update: I stumbled accross this project yesterday night: Atomique which aims to create a platform for decentralized photo sharing like Flickr. They included a nice graphics which visualizes the differences of today’s platforms with (hopefully) future platforms: service centered vs. user centered platforms. The project itself sounds promising, although it will take some time until people realize that Flickr is a lock-in solution. Check out the FlickrCentral discussion group “Decentralize Flickr”. […]

]]> http://www.atomique.org/blog/service-centered-vs-user-centered/#comment-1081 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:37:09 +0000 http://www.atomique.org/blog/service-centered-vs-user-centered/#comment-1081 [...] Update: I stumbled accross this project yesterday night: Atomique which aims to create a platform for decentralized photo sharing like Flickr. They included a nice graphics which visualizes the differences of today’s platforms with (hopefully) future platforms: service centered vs. user centered platforms. The project itself sounds promising, although it will take some time until people realize that Flickr is a lock-in solution. [...] […] Update: I stumbled accross this project yesterday night: Atomique which aims to create a platform for decentralized photo sharing like Flickr. They included a nice graphics which visualizes the differences of today’s platforms with (hopefully) future platforms: service centered vs. user centered platforms. The project itself sounds promising, although it will take some time until people realize that Flickr is a lock-in solution. […]

]]> http://www.atomique.org/blog/service-centered-vs-user-centered/#comment-33 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:49:56 +0000 http://www.atomique.org/blog/service-centered-vs-user-centered/#comment-33 Yes, for search and discovery there still is a need for some kind of centralized search engines (note the plural here). I think Technorati's approach in the blogosphere is a viable way of finding a compromise between completeness and speed. Blog entries are added by both a crawler and a ping service. This can be done for other types of media beyond blog posts such as photos, videos, audio, as well. Personal repositories would ping those "trackers" the users like the most, and the remaining trackers would still find those resources - later though. The pinged trackers would have the newly added entry immediately. Yes, for search and discovery there still is a need for some kind of centralized search engines (note the plural here). I think Technorati’s approach in the blogosphere is a viable way of finding a compromise between completeness and speed. Blog entries are added by both a crawler and a ping service. This can be done for other types of media beyond blog posts such as photos, videos, audio, as well. Personal repositories would ping those “trackers” the users like the most, and the remaining trackers would still find those resources - later though. The pinged trackers would have the newly added entry immediately.

]]> http://www.atomique.org/blog/service-centered-vs-user-centered/#comment-32 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:17:56 +0000 http://www.atomique.org/blog/service-centered-vs-user-centered/#comment-32 The greatest challenge in the decentralized approach is to connect the users. Trackbacks in blogs and Atomique's groups only solve a part of this, they only connect the users that stumble across the blog entry with the trackback or the group on some Atomique page. When the user wants to search for information, a centralized approach is needed again. Specialized search engines like Technorati for blogs or the Google Image Search are already doing a good job to close that gap. But right now search engines for images are indexing new pages way too slow to be of much use for something like Atomique where users are constantly uploading new photos. Maybe this will change in the future, else we have to find a way to do that ourselves ;) The greatest challenge in the decentralized approach is to connect the users. Trackbacks in blogs and Atomique’s groups only solve a part of this, they only connect the users that stumble across the blog entry with the trackback or the group on some Atomique page. When the user wants to search for information, a centralized approach is needed again. Specialized search engines like Technorati for blogs or the Google Image Search are already doing a good job to close that gap. But right now search engines for images are indexing new pages way too slow to be of much use for something like Atomique where users are constantly uploading new photos. Maybe this will change in the future, else we have to find a way to do that ourselves

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