Philosophy and the social web

http://www.slideshare.net/bblfish/philosophy-and-the-social-web-5583083#84

A very nice presentation by Henry Storey on the architecture of the social web as it is, and where it is going

• The Web is a declarative P2P architecture built on URIs
• Reference enabled both linking and merging of information
• Network effects is the driving force
• WebID enables agent identification in a subjective web of trust

keywords

REST, URIs, security, authentication,Web of trust,WebID,RDF,OWL,FOAF,Semantic web.

Links

• Metcalf's Law
• Making the Social World - John Searle (book)
• Philosophical Engineering - Tim Berners Lee (video)
• David K. Lewis
• Sommer Hyper Address Book (video)
• OpenID login demo using WebID
• Creating and using a WebID in under 4 minutes (video)
• sig.ma
  • Live views on the Web of Data (video)
• Language, Thought and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism - Ruth Garrett Millikan
• FOAF+SSL