Posts Tagged with ‘data-portability’

Is not it funny how creators of various web 2.0 tools give us the tools that they intend for one thing and eventually users find unexpected uses that the developers did not even think about? This happened with Twitter - everyone talked about microblogging and we started to use Twitter mostly as a communications tool and now the creators explain that the platform can't cope with the load because they never built it as a messenger tool.
The [...]

Someone on Hacker News was kind enough to post a link to a patent application filed under Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's name. The application, filed with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) in February, has a fairly generic description, "Systems and methods for dynamically generating a privacy summary" with the abstract not giving a whole lot more detail:
"A system and method for dynamically generating a privacy summary is provided. The present invention provides a system and method [...]

Everyone is all excited this week about “Data Availability.” Well, everyone except for some of the Data Portability folks, that is. MySpace and Twitter are hooking up, while Facebook and Digg are hooking up, and people are throwing confetti in the streets.
Or at least it seems that way.
I know that I'm not the only person who doesn't really WANT these little mash-ups, and the more I've thought about it, the more I've realized I don't want a social graph. And [...]

Blogging is at a turning point. There seem to be three different types of bloggers: those who use it as an online diary, those who view themselves as journalists, and those who view themselves as journalists without all the trappings that traditional media types are bound by.
My personal blog is firmly in the first segment, but I'd probably put myself in the last category to an extent in my "work" writing. I started out as a journalism major, but couldn't [...]

My favorite Web 2.0 pundit, Drama 2.0 , wrote a guest article for Mashable that's generated an interesting debate about the Web 2.0 audience. In the article, Drama 2.0 asserts that Data Portability is all about the techies. While eventually, it may end up being used by the unwashed masses, the only people clamoring for the ability to port all their data from one app to another are people who are power-users of any app to begin with. In other [...]

With the “official” announcement of Google Health, which was hinted at back in January, Google is highlighting an ongoing trend of putting absolutely everything online. But what does it really mean for patients?
While it doesn't seem to have gotten the insane amount of press that Google has, Microsoft was actually first out of the gate, announcing HealthVault back in October of last year. With buy-in from corporate partners, HealthVault can link up your data with services from these partners. Your [...]

Thursday night, the first face-to-face meeting was held at the RapLeaf offices in California or those involved in the Data Portability Group, including Chris Saad (Faraday Media), Daniela Barbosa (Dow Jones), J. Sullivan (Mozilla), Mike McKenna (Yahoo), Marc Canter, Tod Sampson (MyBlogLog), Steve Williams (Digg), Ben Metcalfe, David Recordon (Six Apart), Joseph Smarr (Plaxo), J. Trent Adams (MatchMine) and Jim Meyer (LinkedIn).
Chris Saad opened the meeting with introductions and explaining the new hierarchy of the Google Groups set up for [...]

Google has announced the release of its Social Graph API to developers. The Social Graph API is a tool designed to help users find and add their social connections each time they sign on to a new network. It searches for data on your connections across the internet.
The API should make it easier for developers of new social networks and other social applications to add connectivity functionality to their sites and applications. this announcement comes right on the heels [...]

I've been following the barrage of news regarding Data Portability with a mix of excitement and trepidation. I've been a proponent of OpenID, and regularly use services like PassPack to keep track of the ridiculous number of log-ins I seem to have accumulated. At the same time, I worry about what data is essentially mine, and what doesn't rightfully belong to me. I'm still not convinced that Robert Scoble owned the contact information for his 5000 “friends” on Facebook, [...]