By Phil Wolff, on April 10th, 2011
The ActivityStreams group’s technical efforts to finalize a spec in time for the next OpenSocial event in May are coming along nicely. What about the other elements that make for healthy protocol adoption?
Why am I posting AS updates to the DataPortability blog?
Activity Streams reflects our data portability values, helping users have their data wherever they go online. I’m participating in the AS effort on behalf of the #DPP.
— Phil Wolff, editor
We talked about what it takes to launch the ActivityStrea.ms site. This was about a half hour of our April 1st, 2011, four-hour lunch at Chevy’s in San Francisco during the Web 2.0 Expo.
 We started with design questions.
Who is our site’s customer? We tried to categorize by organization size (BigCos, startups, individuals) but this didn’t work. Roles worked better. So far we’re clustering geeks (engineers, technologists) and non-geeks (suits, product managers, designers).
Goals? What might these users want when they visit?
- Fix my stream. Technical help.
- Learn. How to, specs, why.
- Get. SDKs, code samples, books, t-shirts.
- Discuss. Specs evolution, issues, implementation.
- Promote my stream. Testimonials, leaderboard.
- Build tools. Extensions, validators.
Continue reading Notes from the ActivityStreams lunch
By Steve Repetti, on January 17th, 2011
The DataPortability Project’s 2011 officers are Chairman Steve Repetti, Vice Chair Daniela Barbosa, Treasurer Elias Bizannes and Secretary Nate Benes. Drummond Reed and Brady Brim-DeForest will be the Project’s stewards to the Identity Commons. . . . → Read More: 2011 Steering Committee Election Results
By drummondreed, on January 12th, 2011
I’ve been on the board of Dataportability.org since its founding three years ago. The concept made quite a splash when it was first announced, but I knew that after the hype wore off would come all the hard work of making it real. And that’s where XDI would be needed.
Ever since then, I’ve . . . → Read More: True Data Portability
By Phil Wolff, on December 5th, 2010
YCN is a creative content distribution point to various Yahoo! properties. Photographer Thomas Hawk can’t imagine losing access to or control over his photos in the Yahoo Contributor Network. The Contributor TOS says they can kick him off any time for any reason without notice or recourse. Thomas is angry because he’s seen Yahoo!’s . . . → Read More: Why Yahoo! Contributor Network Needs a DataPortability Policy
By Elias Bizannes, on December 1st, 2010
The following notice is to – have people reconfirm their intention to be members of the plenary, the general assembly that can vote and make policy decisions on behalf of the DataPortability community. – be aware of important dates that impact the 2011 Steering membership. – It is done in accordance with the regulations: http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/OIAt
PLENARY
. . . → Read More: 2011 membership deadlines for the Plenary and Steering Group
By Steve Repetti, on November 8th, 2010
An innovative new product has entered the scene that will likely test the resolve of Facebook and others as it relates to data portability. RockMelt (www.rockmelt.com) is a customized implementation of the open source (Google) Chrome browser that tightly integrates social media while maintaining the comfort (and speed) of the Chrome browsing environment. It . . . → Read More: RockMelt Builds on Facebook’s Data Portability
By Elias Bizannes, on October 6th, 2010
Alisa Leonard who is the communications chairperson of the DataPortability Project, has written a perspective that adds to the one just posted by the current vice-chair of the organisation.
She writes:
Already I have seen across the Twittersphere references to Facebook now allowing “data portability.” Data portability is the idea that users are, and . . . → Read More: Why downloading your data is not data portability
By Steve Repetti, on October 6th, 2010
Today’s announcement from Facebook represents the most important statement from them to-date regarding Data Portability. But to be clear, it is by no means the ultimate solution we all seek. Still, it represents major movement in the right direction.
First, you literally can draw a line on the calendar and say “prior to this . . . → Read More: A step in the right direction, says vice-chair of the DataPortability Project
By Elias Bizannes, on June 23rd, 2010
Announcing PortabilityPolicy.org, an initiative of the DataPortability Project . . . → Read More: Announcing the Portability Policy
By Phil Wolff, on June 15th, 2010
 Cameron Chapman explains How To Permanently Delete Your Account on Popular Websites. Perhaps your site’s Portability Policy should answer these questions:
How?
- If you don’t allow account deletion, why?
- What steps do you take to prevent someone else from deleting my account?
- What steps do you take to prevent me from deleting my account when I might regret it? (a moment of anger, intoxicated confusion, suffering from dreadful lack of coordination
- Do you distinguish between account deletion and deactivation?
- How long will it take for my account to be invisible to others?
- How long before my account is gone forever?
- If I delete my account, can others claim my username?
- If I delete my account, will I be able to use my email address to create a new account?
- What happens if I don’t have access to the email address I used to start the account?
- What can delay account closure? (For example, pending financial transactions?)
- Where is the procedure for deleting my account? What happens after I make the request?
Completeness
- Where is the list of authorized software/services that might log into my account? (So I can turn them off.)
- If you let me log into other sites with your credentials (“Sign in with your X account”), what happens to my accounts on the other sites? Where is the list of sites where I use your credentials to login?
- When you delete my profile and account, what happens to shared/community content, like my contributions to a wiki page or to a threaded conversation or gifts to another person?
- When I delete my account, do you also cancel subscriptions to any related premium services?
- Do you make downloading and saving my assets (photos, contacts, history, etc.) part of the account deletion process?
- When I delete my account, do you also delete my contributions (like videos on YouTube) or should I delete those before requesting account deletion?
- If I have money or credit balances in my account, what happens to that money when I delete my account?
- What do you do to help reduce search engine caching of and links to my deleted profile and resources?
- What do you do with my answer to “Why do you want to delete your account?”
Continue reading Deleting Your Account: Data portability policy questions for a graceful exit
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