PUBLIC MARKS with tag FreeData

sharing your phone’s contacts with our servers in order to find your friends and family on Path.

A sample of ThinkUp's features: Archive your Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ history

To my amazement, the account was deleted. Not only that, after logging in, I wasn’t given a choice to download the pictures. That means, my friends, that maybe some pictures were lost because of this. I don’t know what kind of show flickr is running

But my wish list for its future contains a different item: The one feature I hate most is that it only syncs with Google Reader, and I don’t want to see that replaced with any other Cloud-based service, but with something I can host on one of our own servers.

I could deal with Tumblr going down, but having Delicious (and, presumably, soon, Yahoo Pipes) go down, plus the lack of a shell prompt I could get at from anywhere, made it somewhat obvious that I'm too much of a UNIX hack to rely solely on other people's services.

Deleted my Twitter account. Made it to 8,234 tweets, 401 following, 2,056 followers, and 209 lists (for what that’s worth) over three years. I’ve deleted my Facebook account as well. Open systems need more of my attention, and it’s time to vote with my feet.

How Vendor Relationship Management and the Federated Social Web align with each other, and why they can be implemented in a single architecture.

Download if you like and don’t look back!

karl

April 16, 2010 at 10:56 pm

For maintaining your assets as an organization, a company, etc, we have to forget the notion of free. Free doesn’t exist. Someone, something pay for the infrastructure and time spent, be it by ads, by selling your own data for yourself, by asking for rewards in return, etc.

Once you have done this healthy thinking, you can really start thinking about your services and data infrastructure. Let’s say you have a family and you feed this family with potatoes that you got for free from a local business. At a point, you realize that this local business is working on money it doesn’t own, what do you do? You know that your life is 1) not sustainable and 2) at high risk to become a nightmare.

Organizations should always think about their sustainability and in the “freemium illusion” we are living in, not that much is done towards this. I have written a document to help you ask the right questions. http://bit.ly/freedata

What makes a digital device mine, be it a laptop or a cellphone or an music player, is the personal content that is stored, and how that data is translated, stored, presented and categorized.

This API defines a language- and platform- neutral protocol for Consumers to request address book, profile, and friends-list information from Service Providers. As a protocol, it is intended to be easy to understand and implement, either as a Service Provider or Consumer, using any language or platform of choice. It is also intended to be implemented by both individuals and small services as well as large providers, in any case where a service contains data about who a user knows and wishes to make that information portable, under the user's control.

GeoREL is now an ISO standard. The most visible efforts of the working group involved a pilot for ORCHESTRA, an effort to outline some possible licenses. The group extended the existing Creative Commons licenses with a few extra licenses to cover non-disclosure, commercial use and emergency use.

ideally all data in the public interest should be released in a format that is easily consumable by third-party applications.

For 15 of 19 information categories, Facebook sets a default setting of “share,” which means the information can be pulled out of Facebook and stored on servers outside its control. These 15 categories include activities, interests, photos and relationship status.how many members ever change a privacy setting, Mr. Kelly said 20 percent.

We present a framework for analyzing privacy and anonymity in social networks, and develop a new re-identification algorithm targeting anonymized social-network graphs. To demonstrate its effectiveness on real-world networks, we show that a third of the users who have accounts on both Twitter, a popular microblogging service, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing site, can be re-identified in the anonymous Twitter graph with only a 12% error rate.