Let's Talk About Data Portability/Interoperability:
Weather in San Francisco Bay Area is especially nice and is likely to remain that way for a while. It makes perfect sense to sit outside and talk about the hottest topic to hit the Innerwebs: Data portability/interoperability. Whether it is Facebook, MySpace or Google, each has been coming up with ways to control the user. Somehow the noise has gotten ahead of the fact, and I would like to meet smart people about this over the weekend.
A frank conversation with non-conflicted parties that would help me write smarter and conceptually sound posts going forward. I propose: 2.30 PM at Starbucks on Clay & Battery in San Francisco on Sunday, May 18th, 2008. I will buy coffee and cakes, but please don’t pitch me your company. I want some honesty about this topic.
Looks like there is a lot of debate about this today. Check out Techmeme. I have confirmation from various folks including Marc Canter who has been a lightening rod on this issue for a while.
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Why not do this conversation on UStreamTV so location doesn’t determine the voices and opinions you hear? And so that a wider audience benefits as well.
UStreamTV is working well for many in involved in this and other discussions. I’m just saying, it’s NewTeeVee :-)
we could do that – but it be better to do F2F and stream it on FlixWagon or one of the other services.
Agreed Om – I couldn’t make it otherwise – my weekend is flooded so I wouldn’t be able to spend the time to travel.
Actually UStreamTV is better for this sort of thing. Better chat function based upon IRC. Flixwagon is a good reporting tool not so hot for collaboration, though.
Informatica and teradata held a webcast that included this topic last week. I’m into BI and very interested in using profiles from stats to alter a user experience.
I can not be physically present. Here is my contribution to the discussion: A better approach may be what Marc Canter has been suggesting – two-sided API and the ability for users to identify which data can be accessed by whom using those APIs. The former requires an industry standard and the latter has UI implications. But both are surmountable.
Hmmmm no one turned up.
I was there!
Was it for Saturday or Sunday?
LP and Ben it is for Sunday I guess. Today, I showed up didn’t see you there and left at 3 pm. Was sitting in the back of the starbucks. lets try it again tomorrow. I have three people who have emailed me and they are going to be there. so lets get together at that point.
Wish I could’ve joined you for this. Been thinking about this A LOT and what it means from a web publisher’s point of view.