Data Portability

"I, Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL, is asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle's clutches. Without your immediate help Oracle might get to own MySQL any day now. By writing to the European Commission (EC) you can support this cause and help secure the future development of the product MySQL as an Open Source project." - Itachi from Bookmarklet

He wasn't like this when he sold to Sun for big $$$ - Itachi

"Find out how you can use SVG to deploy beautiful and interactive content that is search-engine friendly, accessible, creates extremely small file sizes, and has embedded video, animation, and fonts." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"Since Google's acquisition of Trendalyzer two years ago, we have been working on creating a new service that make lots of data instantly available for intuitive, visual exploration." - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet

I'm not sure why this would take two years. Google's pace of innovation is *really* slowing down. - Michael R. Bernstein

I keep meaning to post a blog entry about the bad experience I've had with OpenID lately. I used to be a proponent but now I'm no longer even really a fan. - Lindsay

In this episode we talk with Mike Kirkwood, Johannes Ernst and Chris Messina, all running for a community seat on the openid foundation board, about the foundation, their goals and the future and issues of OpenID. - Christian Scholz

Trent, Steve and myself are doing a new podcast around the topic of personal data portability. Feel free to subscribe! - Christian Scholz

The entire discussion about business-model constraints that might apply to my recent idea for a brand new medium and content industry. - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet

"I blogged about my thoughts to have a more holistic solution approach to solve the comment-aggregation issue based on OpenID. Would love to get your feedback on my thoughts! - You (edit | delete)" - Sebastian Küpers

"blogged about the thought if it wouldn't make sense to enable OpenSocial to work in an distributed environment? Why not adding apps on my profile, which I have on my DiSo enabled Wordpress blog?" - Sebastian Küpers

You can already use a Google OpenID on any consumer website which supports the 2.0 spec. I tried it with ma.gnolia and Dopplr and did a few screenshots to document it. - Sebastian Küpers

*should read "out of curiosity". Damn. - Tyson Key

"Passport vs OpenID vs Facebook Connect" - Vincent Wright from Bookmarklet

Checking out Open Web Foundation - Vincent Wright from Bookmarklet

Yes Elias, good idea! Thanks for telling me about that - directeur from NoiseRiver

As soon we will reach the point at which we will have a real data portability and a technology which decouple us from specific platforms - because my data, social network information etc. will be updated in real-time independently from the service I use - we will see a renaissance of awesome interfaces. - Sebastian Küpers

Who's supplying the data? How would it be done? How secure would it be? - Franklin Naval

tbh - I can't answer you those questions - ask the guys who are all working on the data portability side - this post more points out, what could happen, if we have this situation - in the end I think the data side will be much more user-centric. - Sebastian Küpers

quote: "I have talked recently to quite a few makers of virtual worlds and most of them don’t have the topic “data portability” really on their agenda, yet. A few of them even see it as a big threat to their business model. But let me explain, why they should care about data portability from the very beginning." - Sebastian Küpers