Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Facebook, Google and Plaxo to join DataPortability.org

by alec on January 8, 2008

Talk about being out there just ahead of the news!

Within hours of the Privacy Manifesto for a Web 2.0 Era being published on GigaOM, Facebook, Google and Plaxo announced that they had joined DataPortability.org. Facebook's Ben Ling, Google's Brad FitzPatrick, and Plaxo's Joseph Smarr will all be joining the group.

And hey, Chris Saad invited me to help draft some of their documents too. I guess I was too late for the press release

In all seriousness, though, this is a great step forward. The privacy issues surrounding data mobility are now much more likely than ever to get addressed, which benefits us all.

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Talking about Voice Mashups

by alec on January 8, 2008

Thursday morning a few of us will be doing a round table discussion on Voice Mashups using the iotum FREE Conference Call service. Andy Abramson, Tom Howe, Jim Courtney and myself will convene for 30 minutes to have a con-cast (Conference Call + PodCast). If you're interested in the topic, please join us and contribute.

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Transitive Privacy Guarantees

January 8, 2008

A call went out earlier this week for a few of us in the blogging community to help pick up a little of the slack at GigaOm caused by Om's convalescence. I was asked if I would contribute a guest post, which I did. Titled A Privacy Manifesto for the Web 2.0 Era, my post [...]

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