DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast - 5/16/2008
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J. Trent Adams
May 16, 2008, 7:19:29 PM5/16/08
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Team DataPortability:
In episode 8 of the DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast we diverge from
the standard format, diving beyond the headlines to explore recent
news. We spent the time talking in depth about the Comcast acquisition
of Plaxo and Google’s release of Friend Connect.
For Plaxo, we have Joseph Smarr, Chief Platform Architect, and John
McCrae, VP Marketing, talking about the acquisition and how it
furthers data portability. Specifically, Smarr made it clear that the
of the game in portablity is not making everything homogeneous, but
rather opening up the flow of communication across systems:
"Data portability is about empowering users to connect the tools they
use so they don’t have to repeat themselves over and over again. So
that the information can flow for others to discover it. It would be a
mistake to characterize it as making everything exactly the same."
On the same thread, returning guest Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate
for Google’s OpenSocial project, highlights their commitment to the
openness of data portability:
"One company can’t hold anything hostage because we’re connecting
together open standards. All these pieces can be supplied by multiple
parties. You can interoperate without having to have a business
negotiation because you can write to the standard and the standard
works."
In the discussion, Marks also corrects some common misconceptions
around Google’s Friend Connect. Some of the reporting about it
mistakenly assumed that Google would be siphoning off the friendship
graph when using it’s system used to connect sites. He clarifies that
Friend Connect enables the portability of user data by mapping the
connections, and isn’t storing the data itself.
Hope you enjoy the show!
Listen:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DataPortabilityPodcasts/~5/291948545/dp_in-motion_20080516.mp3
Subscribe:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DataPortabilityPodcasts
Show Link:
http://www.mediaslate.org/wp/2008/05/16/dataportability-in-motion-podcast-episode-8/
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In episode 8 of the DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast we diverge from
the standard format, diving beyond the headlines to explore recent
news. We spent the time talking in depth about the Comcast acquisition
of Plaxo and Google’s release of Friend Connect.
For Plaxo, we have Joseph Smarr, Chief Platform Architect, and John
McCrae, VP Marketing, talking about the acquisition and how it
furthers data portability. Specifically, Smarr made it clear that the
of the game in portablity is not making everything homogeneous, but
rather opening up the flow of communication across systems:
"Data portability is about empowering users to connect the tools they
use so they don’t have to repeat themselves over and over again. So
that the information can flow for others to discover it. It would be a
mistake to characterize it as making everything exactly the same."
On the same thread, returning guest Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate
for Google’s OpenSocial project, highlights their commitment to the
openness of data portability:
"One company can’t hold anything hostage because we’re connecting
together open standards. All these pieces can be supplied by multiple
parties. You can interoperate without having to have a business
negotiation because you can write to the standard and the standard
works."
In the discussion, Marks also corrects some common misconceptions
around Google’s Friend Connect. Some of the reporting about it
mistakenly assumed that Google would be siphoning off the friendship
graph when using it’s system used to connect sites. He clarifies that
Friend Connect enables the portability of user data by mapping the
connections, and isn’t storing the data itself.
Hope you enjoy the show!
Listen:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DataPortabilityPodcasts/~5/291948545/dp_in-motion_20080516.mp3
Subscribe:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DataPortabilityPodcasts
Show Link:
http://www.mediaslate.org/wp/2008/05/16/dataportability-in-motion-podcast-episode-8/
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J. Trent Adams
=jtrentadams
About Me: http://xri.net/=jtrentadams/+about
Follow Me: http://twitter.com/jtrentadams
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