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Today a company I am advising has launched in the press and will soon be available in the Apple App Store.
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.Jason Kincaid currently works as a writer at TechCrunch. He grew up in Danville, California and later relocated to UCLA in Los Angeles, California, where he studied biology with a minor in ‘Society and Genetics’.
Google Sites Get Liberated By New API
The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front)
Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google's products.
This experimental method refers to big, known brands where users were already logged in , it requires zero typing - just two clicks - and it takes advantage of the OpenID authentication opportunity to get quick permission to leverage the well established OAuth data swap to facilitate immediate personalization - at the same time, with nothing but 2 clicks required of users. 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 Plaxo team has been at the forefront of the new Open Web paradigm best known for the OpenID protocol.
Comcast Property Sees 92% Success Rate With New OpenID Method -
The problem, though, is that people don’t get why Open Standards are so important.
Forget Open Standards
Google Helping Bloggers with Data Portability - ReadWriteWeb
Want to move your blog to another publishing platform? Well now Google has made it easier for you.
Why Facebook Connect is a Big Deal: Workstir’s Winning Implement
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. Moreover, when you post a listing, your location is pre-selected, saving you time in the process of getting that listing online. This might not seem like a huge deal, but as a first-time user of the site, the experience is certainly better than other classified sites where you have to navigate to your city.
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.