20140927/Decentralized social networking

Today's academic open annotation systems, with cat pics, on a decentralized basis, is what a worthwhile breakthrough in social networking will look like.

1. An open source basis. Maybe you don't care, but your nerd friends do, for important reasons.
2. Based on a core decentralized protocol so anyone can pop up an instance.
3. It treats your content, even cat pics, as long term topics that can be constantly cultivated, and links with an academic approach.
4. It has wiki like features:
   1. You can easily see how posts are created in a culture of constantly accessible knowledge and technique.
   2. You can easily track changes at a fine level across content.

Any other approach is just tricking, a veneer.

PeerLibrary is an example of an open annotation system. While it's situated in the academic world, there's nothing really different between it and Facebook except a colour scheme and a lot of marketing. PeerLibrary features a protocol that allows exchanging content between systems, something Facebook only offers in a limited way with their Social Graph.

The breakthroughs with decentralized social networking are cost and control. It costs a lot to run Facebook, maybe the equivalent of one major server and admin for every few thousand people. Today BitTorrent networks share files at a large scale. Take the enthusiasm for file sharing (which is largely about individuals creating powerful sharing servers to participate in the global network) and turn it to sharing social networks, and the hardware and admin costs become a fun hobby for enthusiasts. Add a protocol that reliably distributes your content amongst instances, as well as allowing you to easily keep an up to date repository, including secured content.

The basis of the system itself is just like the Internet. It IS the internet. You can combine elements from multiple sites on any Web page. And a side effect is people will pay attention to their privacy on each of those sites.

I strongly believe solving this problem, moving away from an omniscient central network to a robust decentralized one, and not treating people like dummies but instead like social animals who like organizing and sharing their diverse interests and personalities, and not accepting invasion of privacy and commercialization for every answer, will lead to a more intelligent and responsive society.

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20140927/Decentralized social networking

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Lata Pada is a Canadian choreographer and Bharatanatyam dancer of Indian descent. Pada is the Founder and Artistic Director of Sampradaya Dance Creations, a dance Company that performs South Asian dance. She is also the Founder and Director of Sampradaya Dance Academy, a leading professional dance training institution that is the only South Asian dance school in North America affiliated with the prestigious, UK-based Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing.Pada founded the dance company in 1990 because she wanted to showcase Bharatantyam dance as an art form throughout the world.

Pada, who attended Elphinstone College in Mumbai, trained under the gurus Kalaimamani Kalyanasundaram and Padmabhushan Kalanidhi Narayanan.Pada lives in Mississauga, near Toronto. Pada married geologist Vishnu Pada when she was 17 years old.

In 1985 Lata Pada and her family decided to take an extended vacation to India. On June 23 of that year Vishnu Pada and daughters Arti and Brinda died in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. Lata Pada was not aboard since she left on an earlier date to tour India for Bharatanatyam recitals in Bangalore and across India; Lata was in Mumbai rehearsing for her tour, while her husband and daughters stayed behind in Sudbury, Ontario because Brinda was graduating from high school; afterwards the three flew on Air India 182. Lata Pada became a spokesperson for the families of the victims. After the crash she created the dance piece "Revealed By Fire" in remembrance of the incident. Pada received a master's degree in fine arts from York University in 1997.

Pada married Hari Venkatacharya in September, 2000. Venkatacharya is an entrepreneur and was Managing Director of Nytric Business Partners and is the Immediate Past President of TiE Toronto. He also serves on the Boards of the Ontario Science Centre and Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. They both met while founding the South Asian advisory committee at the Royal Ontario Museum in 1995, where they raised over $3 million Canadian dollars for Canada's first permanent South Asian Gallery.

In December 2008, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada for her contributions to the development of Bharatanatyam as a choreographer, teacher, dancer and artistic director, as well as for her commitment and support of the Indian community in Canada. Lata was also recently appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Faculty of Dance, York University, Toronto.

This article based on content from http://www.wikipedia.org. Original version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lata_Pada