Ma.gnolia: Bookmarks in Portable Social Network

Gnip: Making Data Portability Suck Less

2008-07-14T08:29:58-07:00

Gnip is a new middleware service which sits between producers and consumers of "social data" - interesting to see if people accept this as a kind of hosted ETL for the social web

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Tags: data portability, gnip, lifestream, aggregation, syndication, open standards, xmpp, atom, rest, comet

Technology Review: Who Owns Your Friends?

2008-07-06T22:06:01-07:00

"The incident brought to a head a debate that had been raging for months behind the scenes at social-networking sites: who controls the data users post on their profiles? Advocates of so-called data portability, including Scoble and Smarr, say people should be able to transfer information easily in and out of any Web services they use. Facebook, on the other hand, says it needs to safeguard the information it stores so that it isn't misused, and that means keeping tight control over users' information. At stake is not simply the ease and security with which people move between social-networking sites but control of the currency that gives those sites their value: personal information."

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Tags: data portability, joseph smarr, oauth, openid

Laconica - Open Source Software Project Information

2008-07-05T03:48:45-07:00

Laconica is an open source microblogging tool written in PHP. All data is stored in a MySQL database. Laconica was created as a direct response of a need to create an open source, distributed altern

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Tags: microblogging, web, tool, social software, php, xmpp

Laconica : Home Page

2008-07-02T11:27:31-07:00

Open source microblogging tool - will ultimately be federated open twitter

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Tags: Open Source, microblogging, twitter

Official Google Data APIs Blog: OAuth for Google Data APIs

2008-06-27T01:11:38-07:00

All of Google's data APIs (Calendar, Blogger, Contacts, etc.) all now support OAuth. Excellent!

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Tags: oauth, google, apis, data portability

Social networks may be imaginary | The Register

2008-06-17T13:53:57-07:00

My new motto is "The Social Graph is a Spherical Cow."

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Tags: social networking, social networks, networks, social, social graph, network theory, spherical cow, Eric Bonabeau, supernova2008

Scott Kveton · I’m for the Open Web

2008-06-07T03:20:36-07:00

Scott Kveton rips Chris Saad a new one, and rightly so. We all sent Chris the same message at Social Graph Foo Camp, he's had enough time to shape up but instead things have become increasingly hype-laden and bullshitty with him.

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Tags: dataportability, chris saad, standards, protocols, politics, hype

Coding Horror: Please Give Us Your Email Password

2008-06-06T07:10:04-07:00

An excellent rant by Jeff Atwood that explains just why the password anti-pattern is such an abhorrent practice: "How did we end up in a world where it's even remotely acceptable to ask for someone's email credentials?"

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Tags: password, antipattern, oauth, portablity, email, address book

Your Privacy Is An Illusion: Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan private pics exposed by Yahoo hack

2008-06-04T12:58:14-07:00

Owen has some good points. Data Portability is a security hole if you don't have all parties following the spec and/or enough beta testers.

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Tags: privacy, dataportability, worst practices

Yahoo! Address Book API - YDN

2008-06-04T10:13:46-07:00

You can know use an API (with BBAuth) to get contact Yahoo account contact details. There really is no excuse now for still using the password anti-pattern.

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Tags: yahoo, api, password, antipattern, xml, json, address book, ydn

reboot10 - Jeremy Keith talks about Soul

2008-06-04T08:29:09-07:00

Wandering around the site for the Reboot conference in Copenhagen, I came across this video of my talk from last year. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this talk.

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Tags: reboot9, reboot, presentation, video, soul, provenance, identity, narrative, gaming, microformats, xfn

SocialText :: Data Sharing Context and Privacy

2008-05-28T14:31:11-07:00

Adina of SocialText captures some of the social interaction problem areas that can impact social tools

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Tags: data, privacy, context, socialsoftware, socialweb, socialcomputing, wiki, portablesocialnetwork, socialgraph, psn

Thoughts on DataPortability | FactoryCity

2008-05-12T06:26:59-07:00

A good overview of data portability.

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Tags: dataportability, portablesocialnetwork, socialnetworking, openid, oauth

OAuth support for Google Accounts and Contacts API - OAuth | Google Groups

2008-04-25T14:57:22-07:00

As promised by Kevin Marks in the Q&A after my panel at South by Southwest, the Google Contacts API now supports OAuth. w00t!

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Social relationship portability « Derivadow.com

2008-04-16T16:12:50-07:00

Great write up of portable social networks.

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Tags: xfn, portable social networks, data portability

Explaining the Granular Social Network :: Personal InfoCloud

2008-04-15T09:56:07-07:00

An updated explanation of the granular social network concept with a visualization of the complexity, which when broken down can lead to simplicity

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Tags: socialsoftware, socialweb, socialcomputing, socialnet, socialnetworks, socialnetwork, granularsocialnetwork, sociality, people, human, interest, social, visualization, portablesocialnetwork, psn, socialgraph, tagging, folksonomy, tags, granularity, context, perception, vanderwal, localinfocloud, infocloud, attraction

Cross Network Identity Mapping - ringside - Confluence

2008-04-14T05:39:19-07:00

Ringside implements some profile mapping features

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Thoughts from the Ringside: Identity Mapping

2008-04-14T05:32:50-07:00

Ringside Networks has implemented Identity Mapping to simplify the job of a website as well as make things easy for your users. This is a practical, secure, and private way to making your website more social and engaging and enabling your visitors to spread the news via word-of-mouth easily

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Tags: portable, social network, dataportability

/Message: Can You Sell A Twitter Account?

2008-04-13T11:11:20-07:00

A good description and perspective on Andrew Baron's auctioning off of his twitter account.

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Tags: twitter, socialnetworking, crass, commercialism

Index - about.psyc.eu

2008-04-10T05:06:48-07:00

PSYC is a modern protocol for a messaging infrastructure for text-based conferencing (but also enabling transparent binary data). It has learned from protocols such as IRC and XMPP and found an approach that can indeed scale globally, by generalizing the multicast concept beyond chatrooms to presence awareness, news- and friendcasting and leers at decentralized privacy-driven social networking (using trust metrics) and even telephony. Also, chatrooms are programmable, which enables for applications like event notification.

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Tags: messaging, im, communication, protocol, xmpp, psyc, social, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, community