Data portability and thinking ahead to 2008
So-called data portability and data ownership is a hot topic of late, and with good reason: with all the talk of the opening of social networking sites and the loss of presumed privacy, there’s been a...
View ArticleData banks, data brokers and citizen bargaining power
I wrote this this morning in a notebook as a follow up to my post yesterday… and since I don’t have time to clean it up now, I thought I’d present in raw, non-sensible form. Maybe there’s some value...
View ArticleThe inside-out social network
Anne Zelenka of Web Worker Daily and GigaOM fame wrote me to ask what I meant by “building a social network with its skin inside out” when I was describing DiSo, the project that Steve Ivy and I (and...
View ArticleAfter Social Graph FOO Camp — and a challenge for the Data Portability Group
This past weekend I attended a topic-specific FOO Camp called Social Graph FOO Camp (otherwise known as SGFOO) organized by Scott Kveton and David Recordon (or ray-chor-dohn according to Larry)....
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