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Bättre förutsättningar med ActivityPub - Fediversums historia

Bättre förutsättningar med ActivityPub. I juli 2014 startade en arbetsgrupp, W3C Federated Social Web Working Group (SocialWG), som skulle göra arbetet som W3C Community Group tidigare gjort och gjorde överflödigt. Gruppen som arbetade mellan 2014 och 2018 bestod av personer som var helt oberoende av storbolagen inom sociala medier vilket vid tillfället var ovanligt. Storbolagen var inbjudna men…

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Att skriva om Fediversum innebär att läsa en massa

Jag skrev tidigare om att det är nödvändigt att testa en massa saker för att kunna skriva ordentligt om Fediversum. Dessutom. Att skriva om Fediversum innebär att läsa en massa. Det betyder att en får en insikt om att det är en ganska begränsad grupp personer som utvecklat det vi idag kallar Fediversum. Och att det finns långvariga intressekonflikter och olika uppfattningar mellan och bland en…

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Cloud: IBM, innovazione e sviluppo con developerWorks Open

Cloud: IBM, innovazione e sviluppo con developerWorks Open

IBM mette a disposizione della comunità open source la nuova piattaforma developerWorks Open e 50 progetti collaborativi per accelerare l’adozione del cloud da parte delle aziende e per promuovere l’innovazione nelle aree a maggiore crescita, come mobile e analytics.

developerWorks Openè un ambiente cloud che apre alle tecnologie emergenti di IBM e alle sue competenze espresse da una rete globale…

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Retweeting is a core part of Twitter. People already know how to share items that they think will interest others. Favorites have emerged as something else altogether — a way to acknowledge receiving a message, say thanks, save a link for reading later (using services like IFTTT), and more. You can see a list of tweets a user has favorited from their profile, but favoriting is inherently a private action. That idea is turned on its head with this new experiment. Beyond the effects of this update, Twitter’s continual tinkering of features that are core to its offering — remember when it tested replacing retweets themselves? – is worrying because it feels like those in charge don’t understand the basics of how the service is used. Rather than embracing new opportunities such as direct messages — which I wrote about last week — Twitter is changing its core features to make them worse.

Twitter Tests Notifications for Favorites

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I, however, am human and my eyes glaze over when trying to comprehend a chronological stream of equally-weighted events, a format only robots could love.

A format only robots could love (Phil Gyford’s website)

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Tweets that have received more engagement will appear slightly larger, so your best content is easy to find.

Coming soon: a whole new you, in your Twitter profile | Twitter Blogs

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With the conversation feature, Twitter trampled one of its own inviolate rules: Everything on Twitter is in reverse-chronological order. Now, replies to conversations cause the original tweets to bubble up in the timeline, knocking them out of order and contributing to chipping away at the core nature of Twitter. Conversations were implemented in order to increase the friendliness of Twitter to new users, but in the process they’re obscuring one of the things that was so good about the service, and may ironically confuse users more than help them. Chronology has a simple, primal power and it’s always been part of what makes Twitter what it is. Screwing with that is exactly what happens when you follow your nose to growth rather than examine carefully what the impact of a feature is on the product. ... Both of these features, especially when taken in aggregate, break the fundamental building blocks of Twitter, making it just one more scrollable column that looks like Facebook — just as Facebook is in the middle of efforts to attempt to make itself a place for real-time conversation like Twitter. ... Twitter itself is one of the clearest and most compelling sells in all of ‘social media.’ It’s a real-time feed of information from sources that you can interact with if you choose, or simply consume at your own pace. Releasing updates that don’t honor those powerful, simple tenets is a recipe for long-term disaster — no matter what the short-term gain.

Plotting The Way To IPO, Twitter’s Product Roadmap Has Become Too Data Driven | TechCrunch

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[With Twitter,] there’s no algorithm between you and your feed.

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