Posts Tagged: social swarm

[schedule proposal] The participation to the The Global Square at...

Upcoming events: The Global Square – Berlin Biennale

By marcstumpel, April 12, 2012

[schedule proposal] The participation to the The Global Square at Berlin Biennale is divided in two types of activity: Nodes (contents) and Actions. Nodes are: 1.- TGS Starting date: 27 April Presence: 2 months TheGlobalSquare is a decentralized social and organizational environment which respects privacy and transparency for individuals, public organizations and actions. TheGlobalSquare will consist [...]

Pitfalls of Building Social Media Alternatives (Debate)

By Nicola Bozzi, March 10, 2012

This panel session was pretty intense, as was the following debate. Below an overview of each presentation. Elijah Sparrow‘s speech was focused on presenting the Crabgrass platform, a social network for activist groups currently in an early alpha phase, but nonetheless serving some 30.000 users already. Theoretically based on a very specific idea of networking [...]
German privacy NGO FoeBuD is planning ‘Social Swarm’. An international...

Leave Faceboogle! Join the Social Swarm

By marcstumpel, November 16, 2011

German privacy NGO FoeBuD is planning ‘Social Swarm’. An international campaign that will encourage people to turn their back on the big, centralized, data-hungry social networks. “We want a social network that deserves to be called “social”. We want a social swarm!” In the May 2010 there was QuitFacebookDay, which resulted in nearly 40.000 users [...]