Re: [GNU/consensus] Who are the new kids on the block?

[Nick Jennings]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Melvin Carvalho
<address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 12 March 2013 18:45, Nick Jennings <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Melvin Carvalho
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> > Favourite project at the moment:
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>> > https://my-profile.eu/
>> >
>> > Main reasons: is that it has excellent use of URLs, is decentralized,
>> > respects privacy, and scales to billions.
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>> Pardon my ignorance, but:
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>> How is it decentralized and how does it scale? Once you create a
>> profile there, it's dependant on that site:
>>
>> https://my-profile.eu/people/<username> /card#me
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> Thanks for bringing this up.  This is exactly what I mean by excellent use
> of URLs.
>
> Although you CAN use that URL to login to the site, I can also login with
> any URL that displays my public key.
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> In my case I login via my homepage: http://melvincarvalho.com/
>
> In the case of Tim Berners-Lee he can (and does) login with
> http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i
>

Is that a quality of my-profile.eu? That, to me, seems like you are
describing FOAF in Linked Data... right? In that case I don't
understand what that site has to do with it, other than confusing
people with an ambiguously purposed (and not explained) profile-ish
site. To new-comers the whole thing is confusing and obtuse IMO. I'm
not sure what the 'project' is for that site.


Just playing devils advocate a bit