Monday 1st of December
Data portability – Applying Open ID to New Technologies
Written by - Jenny Williams (Ideagarden)
The whole topic of data portability stimulated quite a bit of interest in our initial topic discussions. Ian Lyons first introduced the discussion supported by Scott Drummond and Stephen Collins who commented that data portability will be key in the next few years.
For those who don’t really understand data portability, it is the option to use your personal data between trusted applications and vendors (see http://www.dataportability.org/)
This is a fundamental area which is quickly evolving as our online social lives become increasingly complex.
Charlene Li from Forrester posted this interesting presentation on slideshare about it..
There are a few topics within this that seem interesting to discuss :
- What are the implications in terms of developing standards across multiple platforms
- Whats the difference between things like Open Social vs Facebook connect
- What are the implications for privacy
- How will this impact Mobile web (how crucial is it for Mobile web to get to the next level, how will this impact the current telcos)
Interested in your thoughts
FROM TWITTER:
@arthur_alston Ignorance is still going to be an issue, I suggest you cover the basics, then review current solutions. http://rurl.org/178f
One useful application of this topic is profile based filtering. Let’s take a look at the restaurant reviews – I’m not particularly interested if 100 anonymous people review a restaurant. I am however extremely interested in the 2-3 people who have the same preferences and constraints as I do – for a business lunch, these are …
1. Food must be 7/10 or better
2. Conversational noise level
3. 1 hour turnaround
4. within 1-2Km of where I am
This profile information may not necessarily be stored on a restaurant review site but if there’s a link to a deeper profile somewhere (be it facebook, myspace, google or pureprofile) then it opens the opportunity to create value for a micro markets. I would love and even pay for a service to pull in all reviews written by people with my profile filter.
We need to start thinking about ways to let intelligent agents (or a personal digital concierge) to traverse semantic information and then make it relevant to us – through profile based filters.