Social pie chart
Can someone please explain to me what a “social graph” is? I’ve seen lots of Web 2.0 business types talking about it, but I haven’t got a clue what it actually means.
Is it the sort of data that one would find in an XFN friends list or FOAF profile etc.?
Or is it just some meaningles jargon people use to dscribe yet another thing to “leverage” or “synergize”?
I just wish these Web 2.0 people would speak in specifics rather than generalities. It’d make the life of the people who actually want to implement the technology easier. That’s why we like clear specifications after all…
Security worries
Annie Mole has posted about the “Onepulse” card, a combined Oyster, credit and ‘cashless’ card. I think this is a bad idea, purely for security reasons.
With credit limits reaching in to the many thousands, combined with the RFID of Oyster, I can’t help but think that combining the two is a really bad idea.
And it’s not really a replacement for cash - cash is useful in a lot more places than the seven places listed. The key for a cashless card is person-to-person transactions. Nail that and we can go about dismantling our crappy banking system (and, maybe, grab a bit of personal liberty back from the government-bank alliance in the process).
In short, no, I don’t want a Onepulse card. In fact, I don’t even use an Oyster card - I use paper tickets because (a) that’s what the train company I use issues and (b) anonymity is nice.
