Today’s Keynote at Drupalcon was given by Chris Messina.  These are my notes from the conversation.

Web 2.0…

1. Harnessing collective intelligence
2. Data is the new “Intel Inside”
3. Don’t Fight the Internet
4. Perpetual Beta
5. Share and Share alike
6. Ignore the distinction from client and server
7. Open APIs and standard protocols are of value when lock-in comes in from data accrual owning a namespace or non-standard formats

Does opensource matter?  Not like it used to.

Technology is becoming humanized.  Humans are becoming technologized.  We are becoming cyborganic.  This will have massive implications on us.  If you haven’t upgraded, to a an iPhone for example, you are an outlier.

1. Identity – Who are you?  For Web services, are you the same person you were the last time.  It has very little impact on who you actually are.  You have to prove who you are by using a password that nobody else knows.  Why is that? Because it is how we’ve always done it.  Computers haven’t been humanized enough to know who you.  We are currently fragmented.  FriendFeed, for example, have roughly 50 services.  It, your blog, twitter, etc aren’t entirely you.  They are little bits of who you are.  Friends also define, a bit, who you are. 
2. Friends – as more and more people are getting online, facebook for example, are trying to humanize the Web.  Search on facebook for friends.  You verify by name, picture, and who the friends have that are friends.  Slowly but surely you become more confident that this person who they say they are.  On facebook they want you to use a real name and a real identity.  That is the natural state of things for most people.  On Twitter you have random strange user names.  We are moving from knowing people as virtual name and real name.  This is shifting in a widespread way.  This represents the rise of the Web.  Barcamp represented the start of the social Web.
1. Hashtags allow for “rooms”.  A low cost way of changing the service
3. Activity Streams – What are you up to?  What are you doing? 1 million to 8 million users.  You have to figure out you can consume huge amount information.  Stickiness isn’t important anymore.  Being part of the conversation is.  Human beings are social.  “Twitter is social grooming”  We’re a bunch of monkey’s grooming each other.  We’re addicted to our friends and the computer allows this.  Messina thinks that we will stop engaging in “Banal friending of one another”.  We’ll only seek out folks we really know.  The only way to get information into streams like Friendfeed, it only can be consumed by RSS.
4. Anatomy of Activity – RSS isn’t enough.  Who did what and when.
1. Blog
2. Note
3. Photo
4. Video
5. Bookmark
5. The Open, Social, Stack
1. Facebook stack – Feed, Friends, Identity.  Stack is in human readable format.
2. Id, discover, authorization + streams, friends, profile.  It would be awesome to see these replicated in Drupal.  The last three overlap the real world.   Facebook gives you a lot of control of what you exposed.  The more control you provide, the more folks will participate.
6. Performative identity
1. There is value in openness
7. Privacy and property
1. Hey all bets are off if you make your information public.  People want full ownership and control over their information so they can turn off access.  The service provider what to bring the information others have shared with them.  You make something public, it is public forever.  Facebook created a bill of rights and responsibilities.
2. Need to have good Communication and setting expectations.
8. Things are changing…walled gardens like AOL haven’t survived.  Flickr, for example, needed to merge Yahoo! and Flickr TOS
9. Copyrights, trademarks, and patents were created to protect creators.  Doesn’t work on the Web.  When you put something on the Web you are combining with the Commons.
10. OpenID – Moving to a place where you aren’t constrained to your hard drive.  Hybrid services like Pandora and boxy synch your hard drive to the “cloud”.  From a Drupal perspective, it is a powerful idea that users might be able to provide information OUTSIDE your site – you can give a notion of where your pictures, movies, etc.
11. Transparency – The government has come out of 8 years of opacity.  Open Source knows more about transparency than anybody else.  This is a way that government is changing.  The government is becoming Open Source.
12. OpenID and the Government – “my privacy works against us”.  Think about Katrina and folks not being able to find loved ones.
13. Trust and Transparency make opensource work.
14. WORK ON STUFF THAT MATTERS
1. Work on something that matter more to you than money
2. Create more value than you capture
3. Take the long view