I wished I could have used data portability to comment on this instead of creating another login!

Cool Video Michael I've used it in a blog post if that's ok

doncrowley.blogspot.com/2008/01/dataportability-video-explains-why.html

Very nice!

Can't wait for this to happen. My web is a mess at the moment.

awesome. can't wait for it to come out

genius work. thank you!

I discovered this project. I am really looking forward !

is this not a rip off of another standard that was doing the rounds well before you? - great video thou.

ah i see. apml is part of it. so you basically wanted to take control over it. i wonder if someone will intergrate dataportability too. LOL.

i'm looking forward to the next big thing that intergrates dataportability, has another group of echo chamber collectives and has a better more impact video to try and tempt me that they are the alpha and the omega of the digital landscape. Stop making up new formats, concepts and build them.

Stop the spin. Make it happen. This ego technology segregation has to stop. It's boring.

lol chris. "malfunction" - sorry mate, but everything you interact with is not a computer. my opinion - i have a right to it. as for smoking, i gave that up years ago, i met too many nutjobs like you that lived in a bubble.

smashface - thanks for your reply. i just wish to see these thing intergrated quickly instead of what appears to be a rehash of the same ideas. great video, respect for that and your very talented.

Still cannot help feel that it was an idea that came out of europe and was jumped all over by the yanks as a control mechanism. I see it a lot these days, twitter came out and was awesome, and then magically pownce appeared. I'm glad to see both apml people are involved with it.

That is where i will always feel the ideas and concept came from. Also, maybe i just did not like the contributors bit on the bottom of dataportability. I suppose it was because i saw apml first. I have a thing about people giving the right people credit. Too many people exist in the technology world surfing off the developments and original ideas of others.

Like i said, just my opinion. I am allowed those still right? :) - either way, whatever format comes there is no doubt that we need to develop a footprint for the media(s) we produce around the net on a variety of sites. Just hope we do not get into a constant state of flux regarding what is cool and useful.

Else how are we ever gonna get the mass communities of the world to understand what it is they need to learn about. The more things we label the more non computer people turn off.

Thanks Phil.

I think we're in agreement about the need for getting things moving and actualized, and that's very much what the emerging dataportability blueprint is about - not the buzzwords or the flashy videos - but giving vendors a means of navigating and integrating what's already out there, ready to do the job. More than anything, any realization of truly portable data is going to need consensus to make it happen - that's what this is all about.

Of course you are very welcome to your opinions and comments here are open! Ditto at the dataportability forums.

Not sure about the European/US divide though - there are actually a fair few Aussies at the heart of the dataportability workgroup (and behind APML), but I think there's a good international spread of folks involved considering the concentration of tech in sillicon valley (where Twitter is based).

Phil. I think your latest post shows that you need to do some reading before blurting on public forums. Europe / US control mechanisms? Do you even know who's behind this? Are you that guy who joined the DP forums and then left in a huff and puff to write on his blog how he was leaving and why, with 10 points? Who's a control freak? Anyway, read up before you respond to this. Smoking or no smoking.

We'd love to hear your ideas for the next DataPortability video. Check out the forums here to have your say - tinyurl.com/38foq7

Well I never care about credit but I think the I was talking about mixing this stuff up over two years ago. geekspeaker.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!588D139CAFEFE462!309.entry?wa=wsignin1.0

and more here

geekspeaker.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!588D139CAFEFE462!310.entry

That doesn't mean I did anything to get the thing moving. I don't even know if my thinking was origninal but I don't care I'm glad to see this portability stuff refined and moving forward.

Jason Bogovich
Aka Geek Speaker

Hi Jason

Thanks for stopping by! That's great - all knowledge is built on the work of past research. I think that's one of the things that makes the commons so unstoppable.

It'd be great to see you over at dataportability.org. We've just launched action groups to push things forward, and the discussions can always use smart folk like yourself to chime in: groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public/topics

I posted your video on a dutch blog
frank-ly.nl/dataportability-op-een-visuele-manier-uitgelegd

Beez - many thanks for blogging the video! I'll have to ask @Cleverclogs for the executive summary :) Love your blog design btw.

bring on dataportability spa for the SN beleaguered

Smashcut, I forgot to say that I absolutely love your video as it's very professionally put together and does more in 3 min to make a totally ignorant person understand dataportability than any other video I've seen on the subject.

As for an action group, I need to make some time to join. I've always been a lurker to causes, but it might help to know that I have always believed this was the future and I've been spending a lot of time at work to help the company understand how important this is for all customer centric websites to embrace fully. (fortune 100 company)

No doubt about it - DP is in our future.

blog.mebeam.com/2008/01/data-portabilit.html

I've been reading Google Groups DP posts in quite a while and I think this project is really amazing. Michael, just blogged your cool video (http://machine-human.com). And by the way, tell the Evangelists they're doing a nice job.
Best from Rio!

Nice video you made. Hopefully the thing gets the attention.
I wonder what the plans on the storage are ...
With current webspace plans there it will be ever a problem concurring with sites like Flickr which promise you UNLIMITED space ...
Nevertheless of the business model someone will have to pay the traffic bills.

But the idea is intriguing, thats for sure.

Sounds great! When?

@Smashcut media: Ah thanks, I already understood and joined the dataportability google group. I'll see what I can do. Good luck with your project and my compliments for your films, it looks great!

Awesome HDness.

Found you from a blog on The Community Girl.

Excellent video on a subject that we have been discussing for a while.

very creative motion graphics....,...i loved how entertaining and informative it was,...and a bit funny....it would be awesome to see a demo of sites doing it. I'll be searching now,...

This is beyond cool!!!

Im not sure what all these geeky works mean! BUT i know OPENID is the greatest thing since i dunno peanut butter!

heard Google & Facebook are joining, Im both mortified & excited, I imagine logging on, with a google map. lol

Congratulations on the new logo, DP. I await more news of this, the answer to my sleepless nights, soon!

I have sent this to the other 3 people that I work with and am about to send it off to some others who I think would like it too.

Our label is interested in connectedness, in how human beings connect online - I am interested in anything that makes it easier - am subscribing

You forgot to mention you login to Vimeo. After all, their hosting your videos !