The document outlines topics around programming social applications including human identity, social grouping, and social identity failures. It discusses foundations of identity including anonymous vs real users and identity sources. Social grouping concepts like tribalism, real-life vs online social graphs, and group types are examined. Challenges with social identity like impacts to personal safety and privacy from oversharing and data mining are also summarized.
1. Programming Social Applications
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Jonathan LeBlanc
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E-Mail: jleblanc@x.com
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2. The Foundation Topics
The Foundations of Human Identity
Tribalism and Social Grouping
The Big Bag of Social Identity Fail
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3. The Foundation Topics
The Foundations of Human Identity
Tribalism and Social Grouping
The Big Bag of Social Identity Fail
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4. Human Identity: User Types
Anonymous Users Real Identity Login
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5. Human Identity: Open Identity Programming
OAuth (1.0a + 2.0)
PayPal Access, Facebook, Twitter
OpenID (…and the upcoming OpenID Connect)
PayPal Access, Google, Yahoo!
Emerging Identity
Mozilla BrowserID, WebFinger, LRDD
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6. Human Identity: Anonymous Users
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7. Human Identity: Tracking Anonymous Users
There are a few common options
Tracking Cookie Local Storage
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8. Human Identity: Real Identity Users
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9. Human Identity: Real Identity Sources
Sources of Real Identity
Social (perceived) Concrete (true)
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10. The Foundation Topics
The Foundations of Human Identity
Tribalism and Social Grouping
The Big Bag of Social Identity Fail
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11. Social Grouping: It’s Not A New Thing…
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12. Social Grouping: Foundation in Tribalism
Tribalism started as a way to keep us safe
…it has lead to some horrible parts of history
but is also a foundation of many of our social
relationships
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13. Social Grouping: The Real Life Social Graph
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14. Social Grouping: The Online Social Graph
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15. Social Grouping: Group Types
Follower Type
Connection Type
Group Type
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16. Social Grouping: Data Miners are Rock Stars
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17. The Foundation Topics
The Foundations of Human Identity
Tribalism and Social Grouping
The Big Bag of Social Identity Fail
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18. Social Identity Fail: Personal Safety
When Social Discovery Impacts Personal Safety
“My privacy concerns are not trite.
They are linked to my actual
physical safety”
--Harriet Jacobs (Gizmodo)
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19. Social Identity Fail: Privacy Concerns
When Making Things Easy Impairs Privacy
“Path Uploads Your Entire iPhone
Contact List By Default”
--Mark Hachman (PCMag)
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20. Social Identity Fail: The Fine Line
The Fine Line Between Insightful and Creepy
“How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl
Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did”
--Kashmir Hill (Forbes)
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/The statistician is now a rock star