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Re: Attention on Digital Monopolies

arikan — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:26:14 -0000

"Right to an API Key" as a regulation would right away incentivize the use of open protocols, from ride-sharing to social media. However, even if the right kind of public policy could be proposed, we would have to deal with the strength of the lobbies which protect the monopolies.

Yes, building protocols is the right way to go up against monopoly power, however, no need to say, it only works when widely adopted, and there are only few successful examples (smtp, xmpp etc.).

In 2008, to free our data-networks from the social media monopolies, we've proposed an open data structure http://userlabor.org to outline the metrics of participation in social web services. It was presented in the Digital Labor conference in 2009 and used only in one platform at the time.

I think we should discuss the qualities and conditions that can make an open protocol widely adopted.

Re: Technology In Istanbul

arikan — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:03:26 -0000

Great that you're visiting Istanbul at this time, the hot summer has not completely arrived.

I think in this post, your portrait of Istanbul / Turkey is a bit too consumption centric. Do not get me wrong, I find this normal given this might be your first time. But, I'd be curious if you are also interested in the creative technologists among these young-mobile-social class of people?

Speaking of creativity and production, did you know in Turkey upload speed is always extremely low --avg under 1 Mbit-- compared to downstream. And, Turkey has one of the world's highest censorship of websites and social media, not to mention the record number of imprisoned journalists. On top of this, take the lack of economic policies & investment on surplus generating technology production, and the capital poured in corrupt "national development" programs and partnerships, which exploit the cultural and natural resources and give irrevocable damage (see the Networks of Dispossession mapping project for more details).

Although living and working under these conditions, people still have hopes. On the one hand, you find activist groups fighting against netneutrality and mass surveillance in Turkey, on the other hand you see startups building successful products exiting from Germany to South Africa (I see already mentioned in the comments). Maybe, what contributes to this hope as much is Istanbul's well connectedness with the global diaspora of Turkey from New York to Beijing.

Also, if you're ok to take a short distraction from your vacation, I suggest you do a short cozy semi-public discussion, I am sure you'll get very interesting insight from the audience.

Just wanted to put my 2 liras in the discussion.

Re: The Mutual Company

arikan — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 08:17:27 -0000

User Labor Markup Language (ULML) http://userlabor.org (proposed in 2008) can be utilized for a "mutual company".

Re: Witch Hunts and Public Data

arikan — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:23:38 -0000

How would radical transparency affect an individual? Regarding to this topic, you may want to check out this software / net artwork I've done from 2008 http://burak-arikan.com/myp...

Re: Hackpad

arikan — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 06:49:31 -0000

When will Hackpad provide a shared spreadsheet?

Re: A New Front Door For USV

arikan — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:54:32 -0000

Congrats. The RSS feed http://www.usv.com/feed seems to be broken, at least can not be parsed by Feedly feed reader. Thanks.

Re: Platforms Take a Long Time to Monetize - SortiPreneur

arikan — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:25:35 -0000

However, platforms generate monetary value for their ecosystem early on. But as as they grow, conservatism on interest graph kicks in, which is against "create more value than you capture" ethos. I believe collectively funded central activity stream app.net, a version of the data liberating Locker Project, or our early-for-its-time initiative userlabor.org are promising initiatives for democratizing the interest graph.

Re: App.net And The Need for Social Networking Standards

arikan — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:34:00 -0000

Also OAuth ( http://oauth.net ) for authorization and http://activitystrea.ms for rich feed publishing/synchronization.

Re: Ten million users is the new one million users

arikan — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:43:26 -0000

Social shopping startups (e.g., Svpply, Fancy, Nuji) seem to have affiliate based revenue from many stores. To me they are a hybrid of transactional and non-transactional. What do you think?

Re: The Darwinian Evolution of Startup Hubs

arikan — Sun, 20 May 2012 04:11:50 -0000

Great story. I wonder what genealogies other Startup Hubs of the world have? London? Berlin? Istanbul? Tel Aviv? Moscow? Bangalore? Sao Paulo?

Re: The Darwinian Evolution of Startup Hubs

arikan — Sun, 20 May 2012 01:25:10 -0000

Great story. What would the genealogy of other startup hubs in the world look like: London? Berlin? Istanbul? Tel Aviv? Bangalore? Sao Paulo?

Re: Should We Kill the Traditional Art Review? [UPDATED w tweets]

arikan — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:45:53 -0000

the answer is in Lombardi’s work.

“The diagrammatic or abstract machine does not function to represent even something real, but rather constructs a real that is yet to come, a new type of reality.”
–Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari

Re: Hirb ve Wirble ile Güzel Konsol

arikan — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:55:09 -0000

prima!

Re: Making The Web Smarter

arikan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:24:57 -0000

I agree. One approach to this echo-chamber problem is to generate recommendations not as an ordered LIST but as a GRAPH, which has core and periphery. Then let the users do a more sophisticated decision in the topology of the graph rather than simply using the dictated order of the list.

Re: Obama's First Weekly YouTube Address

arikan — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:46:47 -0000

By addressing the nation on YouTube, Obama is already addressing the "global nation".

Re: Reklam Gerçekliğin Neresinde Duruyor

arikan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:26:49 -0000

Disqus merkezi yorum sistemini her yeni sistemi denediğim gibi deniyorum. Yorumları bloga değil yazan kişiye ait yaparak güç odağını bloglardan kişiye dağıtıyor. Ama gerçekten öyle mi?

Yorumlarınız şimdi yazdığınız blogun sahibine değil, Disqus diye tekil bir şirkete ait. Bu ne demek? Katılımınızdan elde edilen reklam gelirleri çeşitli bloglara değil tek bir şirketin kasasına gidecek.

Bu durum sizce blog ekosistemi için sağlıklı mı?

Re: Banned In China

arikan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:44:37 -0000

Domain and IP bans happened a lot in Turkey recently (Wordpress.com, YouTube.com and many other smaller services). As we know, if there are multiple ISPs and backbones in the country, not every one's access is blocked. Also savvy internet users can figure out things through OpenDNS and some other tricks on their computers. But at the end, this is a shame. I think blocking people's internet access to certain places is a wild human rights violation, if you especially consider the read/write nature of the web.

HOWTO bypass Internet Censorship
http://www.zensur.freerk.com/