Manifesto
Manifesto
About 600 years ago, Gutenberg invented the printing process and the world went into the Enlightenment
era. Same is happening today. With the invention of internet and social
media, we are now able to speak out our mind and get the word out much
more easily; The frictions to become influential diminish, competition
between intellectual properties increase. As a result, in this fair
market model of intellectual properties, we end up with really the best
of the best ideas picked up by the society in an absolutely democratic
manner.
However, the notion of social media publishing platforms is still in its infancy. Its basic ethics have not been fully established yet. We are still struggling, discussing and continuously brainstorming to find them out. The evolution goes on, and new iterations keep coming. This is actually a very exciting era to be in.
If you are a person who cares about social media, who plays with it, you should also care about its ethics and rules. Data Portability and Decentralized Identity Systems are 2 great community projects that are shaping today's social web - slowly but deeply. They bring in fair rights for social media publishers and create an ideal competition environment for the platforms.
With similar goals, Social Beans aims to provide Skeleton Portability between social media publishing platforms. Social Beans identifies the repeating patterns across all these platforms, be it SAAS, open source or proprietary. And creates a syntax which allows developers and enthusiasts to express their creative ideas in a much more easy way.
This way, you can port roles, membership info, application settings and other fundamental stuff (that we call Skeleton of your platform) from one place to another.
Without Social Beans, we are stuck with creating social web applications in archaic ways; with the same old languages and methods that we use for writing enterprise level applications.
We think there might be a smarter way of doing it. We think social web deserves its own syntax - and it deserves less frictions and much more creativity.
However, the notion of social media publishing platforms is still in its infancy. Its basic ethics have not been fully established yet. We are still struggling, discussing and continuously brainstorming to find them out. The evolution goes on, and new iterations keep coming. This is actually a very exciting era to be in.
If you are a person who cares about social media, who plays with it, you should also care about its ethics and rules. Data Portability and Decentralized Identity Systems are 2 great community projects that are shaping today's social web - slowly but deeply. They bring in fair rights for social media publishers and create an ideal competition environment for the platforms.
With similar goals, Social Beans aims to provide Skeleton Portability between social media publishing platforms. Social Beans identifies the repeating patterns across all these platforms, be it SAAS, open source or proprietary. And creates a syntax which allows developers and enthusiasts to express their creative ideas in a much more easy way.
This way, you can port roles, membership info, application settings and other fundamental stuff (that we call Skeleton of your platform) from one place to another.
Without Social Beans, we are stuck with creating social web applications in archaic ways; with the same old languages and methods that we use for writing enterprise level applications.
We think there might be a smarter way of doing it. We think social web deserves its own syntax - and it deserves less frictions and much more creativity.
How can you contribute
- Become a member of our email list and speak out
- Spread the word, blog, tweet (see the share button below? :-) it's that easy)
- Donate
- Write plugins
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