The other day we blogged about Brad Fitzpatrick’s excellent piece on social graph portability and the evolution of the social web. We’re excited to see further support for this issue with the release of A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web.
The Bill of Rights was created by Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington. The document asserts that web users are entitled certain rights to their information, such as “to syndicate their own stream of activity outside the site” and “to discover who else they know is also on their site, using the same external identifiers made available for lookup within the service.” It’s a step forward in the movement to unleash the social capabilities and inherent social graph that is present on the web.
Rapleaf is a supporter of this Bill of Rights and our CEO was one of its first signers. We’re thrilled to see some of the people who have joined in supporting the Bill. As the social web continues to evolve, Rapleaf will play a significant role in alerting users to the presence of their information across the web – helping you better manage and control your online reputation.
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September 6th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
[…] Some people want us to go further with Bill of Rights to NON social web users, some have contributions of the grand schema of things, others have opinions over the exact language, scope and wording - while others think its a waste of time. It’s been translated into Polish already. Regardless - at least a conversation has started. We’ll have up an interactive version for folks to add their names in support of our Bill of Rights - next week. I’m excited that we were able to elucidate the underlying principles of arguments I’ve been making for years. Hopefully this will resonate and get talked about in blog posts, at conferences, seminars, inside strategy sessions and appear in research reports. That’s why we did it - to get the ideas out there and clarified. […]