True free and open data interop is not bad, its different. The walled gardens of Big Data (yahoo, google, facebook, etc) will not work long term because the terms they are currently pushing for 3rd party usage of your data are designed to artificially control your behavior. These artificial barriers will not hold long term [...]
…And I feel fine.
As sung REM back in the 90s, I feel like this represents the current state of data portability on the net right now. Things are changing and the big boxes (yahoo, MS, google, facebook, myspace) are feeling the evolutionary pressure to move towards that new market equilibrium.
One of the things I’ve seen [...]
Data Availability, Portability, Interopability — however you’d like to term it, always reminds me of an old children’s story, “Stone Soup”.
From Wikipedia:
According to the story, some travelers come to a village, carrying nothing more than an empty pot. Upon their arrival, the villagers are unwilling to share any of their food stores with the [...]
Yesterday Myspace announced the latest version of their opensocial specs, along with their intentions to support “data availability” (Ben Metcalf, Christian Scholz, and VentureBeat). The major focus of this initiative is data sharing between their launch partners Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and Photobucket, although more partners may be added later. From the press release:
“MySpace … will [...]