
DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix
2 years ago
DataPortability gathers existing open standards into a blueprint for a social, open, remixable web where your online identity, media, contacts and content can follow you wherever you go. Find out more at dataportability.org
CREDITS:
Written, designed and edited by Michael Pick, smashcut-media.com
Music - "Bongo Avenger" - Eric & Ryan Kilkenny: CC Attrib. Non Commercial
Hands photo: Scol22 - Stock.xchng
CREDITS:
Written, designed and edited by Michael Pick, smashcut-media.com
Music - "Bongo Avenger" - Eric & Ryan Kilkenny: CC Attrib. Non Commercial
Hands photo: Scol22 - Stock.xchng
-
Vimeo: About / Blog / Developers / Jobs / Community Guidelines / Community Forums / Help Center / Site Map / Merchandise
/ Get Vimeo

Previous Week
Stop the spin. Make it happen. This ego technology segregation has to stop. It's boring.
As Chris points out, dataportability isn't a standard so much as it's a blueprint for cross-promoting and unifying an existing stack of standards. Nobody's trying to reinvent the wheel here, but the need for bringing atomized standards together is clearly one that people are responding to.
Re: APML, some of the same people are heavily involved in both projects. dataportability isn't about absorbing or stealing the thunder from existing standards, but on the contrary giving vendors (and ultimately end users) a way to integrate them effectively and free up our data.
As for making it happen, anyone interested can play a part in how things are shaping up at the public google group, which you can access from dataportability.org. Hope to see you there!
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.
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).
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
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
frank-ly.nl/dataportability-op-een-visuele-manier-uitgelegd
Get stuck in today at groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public/web/action-groups
blog.mebeam.com/2008/01/data-portabilit.html
Best from Rio!
Look forward to seeing you over in DP-land.
Greets from Sapporo!
And thanks re: video. We're working on cooking up the next one soon.
Excellent video on a subject that we have been discussing for a while.
Our label is interested in connectedness, in how human beings connect online - I am interested in anything that makes it easier - am subscribing