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Caveat Lector: this is a rough draft of my thinking on what a Portability EULA/ToS should say/do/include. Please comment. In the EULA/ToS task force, we are exploring ways of explaining portability with simple analogies. – Phil We’ve discussed Graceful Exit, the ability for people to control their departure from a site or . . . → Read More: Open Arms: a data portability approach  Comments are closed  Analysis  data portability, dataportability, dpp, eula, everfresh, gracefulexit, open arms, openarms, task force Rethinking your TOS/EULA is a pain in the neck. Nobody wants to divert attention, money or energy thinking about it. It seems like a serious distraction from making money and serving customers. Looking at the 2009 Facebook policy hubbub, it’s a big deal. It sucks up attorney fees, management, press, even engineering into a . . . → Read More: Facebook and Lumpy policy decisions Yesterday, Facebook took a further step in opening its network by introducing enhancements and new features to its developer APIs. Facebook’s new APIs make it easier for applications to update user statuses, links, and upload videos from outside of Facebook. This effort will likely generate a flurry of activity in the developer community as . . . → Read More: Is Facebook’s Move to “Openness” Setting a de facto Standard? Flickr deleted a popular photographer’s collection. Thomas Hawk reports this eviction from start to finish. Arbitrary justifications, no notice, no appeal, no ability to restore the photos, deletion of third-party intellectual property (thousands of comments). It seems the justification was without merit. Does your city give landlords this much power? Should you have . . . → Read More: Graceful Exit: Yahoo!’s flickr evicts Shéhérazade Excerpt from a tragic exit, a story of online eviction from Facebook, without notice, merit, or recourse: All was definitely not well. Facebook obliterated Nakedjen. Obliterated. Deleted. Made me disappear. And they did it without any warning or even a simple email telling me that I had done something wrong. My email to them . . . → Read More: Graceful Exit: facebook evicts Nakedjen One comment - (Comments are closed) Analysis, Community data portability, dataportability, dpp, eula, eviction, facebook, ownership, rights, stories, tos Online Eviction Jason Scott’s Protection From Online Eviction? and his follow up post make the argument that services like AOL, MySpace, flickr, or Skype should be treated like landlords. The power landlords have over tenants is overwhelming, unless restricted by law. The argument: if they want to shut down a service, essentially evicting users, . . . → Read More: Graceful Exit: The Power to Fight Eviction 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Analysis, Portability Policy api, data portability, dataportability, dpp, equity, evict, evicted, eviction, evictions, fairness, gracefulexit, power, privacy, rights 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 . . . → Read More: Forget Open Standards 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Analysis, Announcements, Open Standards data portability, dataportability, dpp, facebook, Open Standards, peering There’s a great book that you need to read if this whole data portability world perplexes you, called Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. Suffice to say, it’s one of those Must Read books, but what I want to share is a story the boys wrote . . . → Read More: The “why” of Open Standards One comment - (Comments are closed) Analysis, Open Standards data portability, dataportability, dataportabliity, dontapscott, dpp, katriana, katrinalist, PeopleFinder, wikinomics Following on from the previous post, here is an extended diagram that shows a number of new elements. data portability landscape – extended diagram The new elements on this extended diagram are: 3 unfilled boxes. Standardized EULA, Standardized User Experience, Standardized Business Logic. These are the 3 open opportunities/challenges for the community moving . . . → Read More: Extended Landscape Diagram |
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The data portability Landscape – An update
Given the recent intense activity around data portability (Announcements from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo etc) and the impending end of the year, I thought it opportune to summarize the data portability landscape from my personal perspective and the perspective of the DataPortability Project.
The data portability Landscape Diagram
2008 was called “The year . . . → Read More: The data portability Landscape – An update