Data Sportability
It’s nice to see everyone joining the portability and open standards bandwagon, and with such breakneck speed. It’s also great to see a complete 180° turn for many people involved — it wasn’t too long...
View ArticleIs OpenID actually Open?
Note: There are updates following this posting This has troubled me for a few years now… I just asked the DataPortability group for clarification… but in a nutshell ( and reprinted below ) To-date,...
View ArticleThoughts on Open Source, Open Standards, and Online Advertising : Data...
Note This is the first part of a series that I have been working on for a few weeks. The current combined text is 6,000 words – so I’m releasing it in sections. Apologies to those who have been...
View ArticleThoughts on Open Source, Open Standards, and Online Advertising : Data...
In 2005 I started FindMeOn after noticing some serious flaws in the use of OpenID. The base of the system grew out of the identity & publisher syndication components of a music website I had been...
View ArticleFacebook owns my Social Graph… It shouldn’t
Key points: Social networks position themselves as new addressbooks Social networks decide their own Terms and Conditions of use. That is OK Exiting users not given the ability to remove shared content...
View ArticleCollecting my thoughts on data portability & open systems
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting up with Elias Bizannes of the DataPortability.org project a few times. We got to nerd out about different concepts – and our positions – on the overarching theme...
View ArticleWhy Portability ?
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting up with Elias Bizannes of the DataPortability.org project a few times. One day he asked me: Why portability ? This was my answer: Data portability is a trick,...
View ArticleOn Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Elias Bizannes and some other folks from the DP project have started working on a way to unify network legal contracts. A little over a year ago I set out on the same path, trying to bootstrap a...
View ArticleOn that ‘Zombie Photos’ report…
CNN and BBC have both covered something called ‘Attack of the Zombie Photos’ – an experiment out of the University of Cambridge that tested to see how long a photo that was deleted by a website would...
View ArticleEveryone’s talking about the need for a privacy oriented Open Source solution...
And a lot of people are asking me “Weren’t you doing that four years ago?” Well yes, I was. In fact I still do. My company FindMeOn Open Sourced a lot of technology that enables a private and security...
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