Stalqer Viral Loops and Network Effects | Chris Saad Paying At. Today a company I am advising has launched in the press and will soon be available in the Apple App Store. They are called Stalqer and, as Techcrunch writes, they are basically Foursquare on steroids. I think that’s a pretty good description. The fact is, however, the most impressive thing about Stalqer is not what it does but how it does it.
Rather than approaching acquisition and retention of users like any typical app , it uses data portability, viral loops and network effects to on-board and engage users on an ongoing basis. Not enough app developers consider this when engineering their user experiences and the result is usually a big ‘Techcrunch’ launch and a big flame out as users flock for a 5 minute road test and never return. Mick (CEO of Stalqer) and his team, however, have almost turned virality and network effects it into a science.
Here are some of the highlights of their product decisions. The list of innovations goes on and on. The Web of Identities: Making Machine-Accessible People Data. In a previous article, we discussed the Web of data, which is about inter-linking open data sets and, thus, turning them into machine-accessible structured data. In this post, we'll draw a picture of how the emerging social Web could serve as a Web of identities, which is essentially a people-data version of the Web of data. W3C's The LOD approach is very good for static and encyclopedic knowledge, but what about accessing our personal data?
Technically, modeling our identity, profile data, social graph, groups, activity stream, assets, and other kinds of personal data is straightforward. But empowering machines to access this data could present challenges to the LOD approach, because it comes with all sorts of constraints and peculiarities, such as privacy and data volatility. People want control over who has access to their data or parts of their data and want to be able to block access for any reason. And issues such as rapidly changing and outdated data remain unaddressed. Google Sites Get Liberated By New API. For the last 18 months Google Sites has given businesses a way to quickly build their own websites with no HTML knowledge required, making for an easy way to help coordinate efforts internally and to also build consumer facing sites.
But there’s been one fairly major complaint about the service: there was no easy way to export your data if you wanted to take it elsewhere. Today that changes, as Google introduces its new Sites API. For those that aren’t familiar with it, Sites is the reincarnation of Jotspot, which Google acquired back in 2006 (though the two products look totally different). The product is Google’s easy-to-use website and wiki builder that’s widely used by businesses, though there’s a consumer option available. The new API is part of Google’s recently launched Data Liberation Front, which consists of a team at Google with the “singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products”. The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front) Importante: i dati di Google che scarichi non vengono eliminati dai server di Google. Scopri come eliminare il tuo account o come eliminare le tue attività.
Puoi esportare e scaricare i tuoi dati dai prodotti Google che utilizzi. Puoi esportare, ad esempio: Email Documenti Calendario Foto Video di YouTube Puoi creare un archivio per conservare i tuoi dati o utilizzarli in un altro servizio. Importante: se le azioni vengono considerate rischiose, potrebbero non essere disponibili o essere rimandate per proteggere il tuo account. Passaggio 1: seleziona i dati da includere nell'archivio da scaricare Visita la pagina Scarica i tuoi dati.
Passaggio 2: personalizza il formato dell'archivio Metodo di recapito Invia tramite email il link per il download Ti invieremo un link via email per scaricare l'archivio dei tuoi dati di Google. Seleziona Invia tramite email il link per il download come "Metodo di recapito". Aggiungi a Drive Seleziona Aggiungi a Drive come "Metodo di recapito". Aggiungi a Dropbox Note. Comcast Property Sees 92% Success Rate With New OpenID Method - The most-watched geek event of the day has to be the OpenID UX (User Experience) Summit, hosted at the Facebook headquaters.
The most discussed moment of the day will surely be the presentation by Comcast's Plaxo team. Plaxo and Google have collaborated on an OpenID method that may represent the solution to OpenID's biggest problems: it's too unknown, it's too complicated and it's too arduous. Today at the User Experience Summit, Plaxo announced that early tests of its new OpenID login system had a 92% success rate - unheard of in the industry. OpenID's usability problems appear closer than ever to being solved for good.
Plaxo, primarily known for the noxious flood of spam emails it delivered in its early days, is now an online user activity data stream aggregator owned by telecom giant Comcast. The Flow The method Plaxo has been testing is called an OpenID/OAuth combo, in collaboration with Google. The Success Rate We expect to see this basic flow get iterated on even further. Forget Open Standards. Forget Open Standards… Well, sort of. To date, the DataPortability project has often referred to its vision as “Open Standards based Data Portability”. The problem, though, is that people don’t get why Open Standards are so important. Some even think that we’re advocating open standards for the sake of open standards. In truth, Open Standards are just a means to an end.
The end is not “Open Standards based Data Portability”. Peered Data Portability differs dramatically from what we have today from Facebook Connect. FB Connect Version of data portability - Hub n Spoke The Future of Data Portability - Peered Nodes Does the peered model look familiar? The Internet is already a Peered environment In the Hub and Spoke model, a single node controls the transaction and facilitates data sync between participating 3rd parties. The problem, however, is that it has a central point of control, failure and commercialization.
Can you imagine if there was only one Web server? Google Helping Bloggers with Data Portability - ReadWriteWeb. Why Facebook Connect is a Big Deal: Workstir’s Winning Implement. Workstir is a relatively new site you might not be immediately familiar with; it’s a service for submitting work requests for everything from home repairs to web design, where people looking for work can then browse those listings and submit bids. The site just implemented Facebook Connect, and it’s a great example of what makes the portable identity service so intriguing. First is the obvious – you can sign up for Workstir without creating an account, but instead using your Facebook login info. That’s a big deal in its own right – I probably wouldn’t sign up for Workstir if it required a lengthy sign up process - but we already know about that. The bigger deal is how Workstir takes other data from your Facebook profile to make the user experience on the site much more user-friendly. Since Workstir knows your location (that you've provided to Facebook), it can immediately show you listings in your area, rather than requiring you to do a search.
Blog Archive » Chris Saad - Co-Founder of DataPortability.org. Impact Games - Play the News - Data Portability. Towards a Value-Added User Data Economy - ReadWriteWeb. Every week it seems like the debate over access to, portability of and privacy over user data on the social web has reached new heights. It's only going to get louder though, just as discussions about other forms of economics will never be resolved. That's a part of what's going on, economics. This is an information economy, after all, and user data is clearly one of the most important currencies in circulation. User data has been sold by ISPs, leveraged by ad networks and horded by social networks for years.
Now, users are storming the castle to recapture their own booty. We argue that it's in everyone's best interest that the data be freed. Vendors have far more to gain by working to add value to freely flowing data than they do from trying to horde as much data as they can. The Importance of Privacy Facebook holds a growing amount of user data and tries to hold on to it tightly in the name of user privacy. Long Term Interests Recall the economic theory of comparative advantage. Welcome - idiomag | your music magazine. Practical Portability WorkGroup.