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June 16, 2004
TribeCast: when YASNS meets blogrolls
Posted by danah boyd
Did you ever stop to think that blogrolls are awfully similar to YASNS friends? Apparently Tribe.net did too. They just released TribeCast where bloggers and anyone else who owns a website can display their Tribes or Friends. This is a fantastic bridge of two bodies of software that are quite similar.
Of course, the first thing that i did when i saw my image amidst Mark’s list of friends was change my photo on Tribe. The picture was so out of place in that context. I’m not sure how i feel about seeing my picture, location and number of friends re-broadcasted. With a little effort, this data is very accessible, but there’s something different and more peculiar about seeing it published on someone else’s blog. Why should my login habits be displayed there? It’s a complete context shift and it makes me feel awkward. Collapsed contexts… Somehow, i want to be in control of how my image is displayed around the web, even though i know that’s not feasible. But when i signed up for Tribe, did i assume that i signed up to be re-broadcast everywhere?
Anyhow, i’m not completely sure how i feel about this, but i thought i’d throw it out there for others to ruminate.
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1. Danyel Fisher on June 16, 2004 3:28 AM writes...
Without disrespect, the oft-overlooked LiveJournal has long since done exactly this. A Friends List is a publically displayed list, *is* an aggregated feed of your Friends' latest messages, and *is* linked to their pictures.
Here's an example:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/opportunitygrrl/friends
Pretty cool that Tribe is exporting the feature for the non-LJ among us.
Permalink to Comment2. Scott Moore on June 16, 2004 3:21 PM writes...
There is another side to the lack-of-control when publishing your YASNS friends. Replace your image with something that is not only out of context with Mark's site, but actually demands to be hidden from the public list.
I'm an advocate of adding to *every* piece of identity information the option of what level is allowed to see it (or give alternatives per level). Leave it to the users to decide what they consider too personally identifiable.
Permalink to Comment3. zephoria on June 17, 2004 10:08 PM writes...
I will expound more later, but i wanted to note that it is by no means overlooked by me that there is an integration in LJ. Of course, a lot of what makes this peculiar is that there is a context switch between YASNS and blogging; they aren't culturally integrated like they are in LJ.
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