On Contact Management
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On Contact Management
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#2I think most people already solved this problem by joining Facebook.
Yes, it's obviously not quite the same thing. But it's a central place which (almost) everyone has joined. Many have listed their phone/email details, and if they haven't I can usually message them to ask.
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#3In effect, we have exactly this if your acquaintance's contact information is on Facebook and you link your phone's address book with them. You don't need to keep track of constantly changing information since it's all centralized in one location. The "spheres" you reference are akin to Google+ circles or Facebook's lists. You can set the visibility of your contact info to achieve something pretty close to what was described.
The upside of such an approach is that there is one central point of truth for everyone's info. Conversely, the downside is there's also one central point of failure.
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#4Every social network strives to be this for people.
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#5This is indeed a general problem. Facebook and google+ where response attemps. But my impression is that they failed because they didn't focus on this particular service to do it right.
I would push the vision further. We need a service to also publish, revoque and update public keys/certificates. You suggest to have this information restricted and share it as needed. But some people want this information public like people in business or companies. So the shared as needed is only a particular use case. You also want access control. We can't solely rely on sharing limits.
Another thing is that people should be able to have more then one such sphere/internet identity, one for professional activity, one for private activity, etc. One should be able to have throwaway identities or network identies without links to our real identity to preserve our privacy or security.
It's been some time that I was thinking of this need and of a possible implementation (i.e. DNS like). I would love to share my thoughs and participate in such project. You should be able to contact me at chmike@dupif.com.
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#6You just might want to read a post I did a while ago about the same idea, packaged slightly different: http://momo.brauchtman.net/2012/02/09/distributed-management... .
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#7In effect, we have exactly this if your acquaintance's contact information is on Facebook and you link your phone's address book with them. You don't need to keep track of constantly changing information since it's all centralized in one location. The "spheres" you reference are akin to Google+ circles or Facebook's lists. You can set the visibility of your contact info to achieve something pretty close to what was d…
My feeling is that we need a neutral and decentralized service for that like the DNS. I want this information hosted in my country and subject to the laws of my country and as a free service like the phone white pages companion of an internet access. Protocol should be open and an internet protocol if a new needs to be defined.
Facebook and Google+ are definitely not the final answer to that need.
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#8I think most people already solved this problem by joining Facebook. Yes, it's obviously not quite the same thing. But it's a central place which (almost) everyone has joined. Many have listed their phone/email details, and if they haven't I can usually message them to ask.
Welcome to China.
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#9You just might want to read a post I did a while ago about the same idea, packaged slightly different: http://momo.brauchtman.net/2012/02/09/distributed-management... .
I am working on this direction in my spare time:
- A Web Orchestration Language: http://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-egont-a-web-orchestration-...
- Egont Part II: http://blog.databigbang.com/egont-part-ii/
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#10Agreed. This is so common a problem that it makes perfect sense for there to be a completely _separate_ service out of it.
The commercial aspect is where it really starts to be complicated, though.