#sandroExcellent. It might be worth a few of us running through demos with each other the day before, to get a sense of the timing, and have a more shared understanding of the differences.
#tantekI'm also hoping to avoid the ratholes of but what about all the European privacy legal blah blah blah blah neverending and mostly useless debates
#tantek(which kinda happened a bit in Sapporo :( )
#sandrocsarven, that's not bad, but I was trying to keep a little separation between Tim's keynote "Redecentralization of the Web" and SocWebWG.
#csarvenDEcentralised and Federated soCial Web DemOs Now (DEFCON) ?
#tantek"earn rewards" are those better than "badges"?
#sandroI hate them both, but badges are sometimes okay, not being crassly commercial
#csarvenIsn't the visibile the number of followers acts like a badge?
#sandrohonest metrics are fine. I'm just personally offended when someone says, "If you get 100 followers you get a gold star and we'll tell everyone you've been a good little boy."
#sandro(hopefulyl that paraphrase makes it clear why I find it offensive)
#tantekand putting a number up means incentivizing gaming it etc.
#sandroremembers when Orkut sorted people by number of friends they had, and how strong an incentive that was.
#sandrorecalls it as like $100 bills floating down from the sky
#tantekis not amazed, given history of Google blowing it across nearly all project/technology areas (aside from search/mail/docs which is a pretty decent Enterprise™ set TBH)