Comments on: Data Portability Red Herrings http://philmccluskey.com/codestream/2008/01/04/data-portability-red-herrings/ chop wood ยท carry water Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:38:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul Lloyd http://philmccluskey.com/codestream/2008/01/04/data-portability-red-herrings/comment-page-1/#comment-30845 Paul Lloyd Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:43:42 +0000 http://philmccluskey.com/2008/01/04/data-portability-red-herrings/#comment-30845 Scratch that, they just replaced it with something quite bland :-( Scratch that, they just replaced it with something quite bland :-(

]]> By: Phil http://philmccluskey.com/codestream/2008/01/04/data-portability-red-herrings/comment-page-1/#comment-30838 Phil Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:19:36 +0000 http://philmccluskey.com/2008/01/04/data-portability-red-herrings/#comment-30838 Yep, generally speaking I think the data portability movement is a great idea, and I'm sure some useful things will be born from it as it grows; right now though the context is key, and the more intertwingled your data is with mine, the messier things get. And, yes, they have a really nicely designed site. :-) Yep, generally speaking I think the data portability movement is a great idea, and I’m sure some useful things will be born from it as it grows; right now though the context is key, and the more intertwingled your data is with mine, the messier things get.

And, yes, they have a really nicely designed site. :-)

]]> By: Paul Lloyd http://philmccluskey.com/codestream/2008/01/04/data-portability-red-herrings/comment-page-1/#comment-30837 Paul Lloyd Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:06:23 +0000 http://philmccluskey.com/2008/01/04/data-portability-red-herrings/#comment-30837 I think I'm in general agreement with you here, but I would like to see some of these standards, and general thinking around this area continue (although many of the standards on that site I know little about to be honest). Dopplr has done some great things around data portability, allowing you to use your Flickr, Twitter and Facebook friends lists as a means of finding the same friends on their network, and some of the standards (microformats for example) are great for opening up these sort of possibilities. I would like to see social networking companies open up more, and no OpenSocial doesn't cut it (great - now I get zombies biting me on *every* social network I join!) The fact that Plaxo is behind this is worrying also, yet not surprising. It seems as if they are up to their same old tricks. As to Scoble, he really is becoming Silicon Valley's version of Paris Hilton isn't he! Finally, say what you want about Data Portability, but that website is just an absolute beauty isn't it!? I think I’m in general agreement with you here, but I would like to see some of these standards, and general thinking around this area continue (although many of the standards on that site I know little about to be honest).

Dopplr has done some great things around data portability, allowing you to use your Flickr, Twitter and Facebook friends lists as a means of finding the same friends on their network, and some of the standards (microformats for example) are great for opening up these sort of possibilities. I would like to see social networking companies open up more, and no OpenSocial doesn’t cut it (great – now I get zombies biting me on *every* social network I join!)

The fact that Plaxo is behind this is worrying also, yet not surprising. It seems as if they are up to their same old tricks. As to Scoble, he really is becoming Silicon Valley’s version of Paris Hilton isn’t he!

Finally, say what you want about Data Portability, but that website is just an absolute beauty isn’t it!?

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