Thursday, September 13th, 2007
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Vanessa Fox (ex-Google) on People Search versus SNSes: “What none of the people search engines expected was Facebook. In a social network like Facebook, users willingly hand over all information that people search engines are trying to cull and aggregate”
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list comprises 25+ tools to manage your reputation, officially sign documents, aggregate your social network IDs and more.
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“I began playing out the thoughts that were going thru my head and the method of my suicide on Twitter.” “I found out the next day that my actions posted on Twitter had caused many people to become concerned for my safety.” (Life As Nick Starr)
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“the basic skeleton of the debate” - “a complex subject – similar in my mind to understanding what constitutes fair marketing vs. anti-competitive practices in capitalist markets – and it requires thorough and thoughtful analysis and debate.”
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Back when people were trying to bring OpenID, LID, and i-names together, something called Yadis was born… Yadis was a discovery protocol for identifiers that was based on XRDS, or eXtensible Resource DescriptorS. (Phil Windley’s Technometria)
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Cloudtripper is an open community project devoted to portability of personal social data: the ability for individuals to “take their data with them” as they move across different websites and applications without having it locked into any particular silo.
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… [at the Data Sharing Summit] (Scott Kveton):
Profile and registration data
Profile update push
New friend on A, update on B
eVite problem
Share resources once, available everywhere
Where did I put that?
Consolidated messaging
Friend decay:
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free open public service by the Identity Schemas Working Group (IDSWG) of Identity Commons. The purpose of the CDS is to facilitate interoperable data sharing through the use of a community-maintained dictionary of attribute definitions and synonyms.
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The funniest part of the Data Sharing Summit was the way everyone kept using the word “universal.” As in a universal API based on a universal database schema that will allow social network data to move freely from site to site [...] It ain’t gonna h
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how-to guide for setting up an Amazon EC2 appliance (Ubuntu instance) ready to deploy a Ruby on Rails app to by Paul Dowman.
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Elastic Rails is a plugin for managing capistrano recipes to deploy your rails app.
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