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Data portability in the Credit Card industry

By Elias Bizannes, on May 28th, 2010%

Credit card data portability . . . → Read More: Data portability in the Credit Card industry

Redefining and Standardizing ‘Ownership’

By Daniela Barbosa, on February 16th, 2009%

Facebook, by virtue of its sheer size and scope, is often the first to run into issues that the rest of the social web will need to address sooner rather than later. To its credit, Facebook seems to be trying to address these issues in a way that protects their short and long term . . . → Read More: Redefining and Standardizing ‘Ownership’

Graceful Exit: The Power to Fight Eviction

By Phil Wolff, on January 16th, 2009%

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

Time To Criminalize The Password Anti-pattern

By Elias Bizannes, on January 4th, 2009%

Update: Twitter made another commitment today to adopting OAuth which is great! However they acknowledge that it won’t solve all problems (like we argue) – nevertheless these are positive steps to us eradicating the password anti-pattern

In case you’ve never heard of it, Twitter is a micro-blogging service that is doing to communications . . . → Read More: Time To Criminalize The Password Anti-pattern