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12.02.10Flowing Your Identity Through the Social WebSome social networking platforms are beginning to buy into data portability. Whereas any step toward opening up the closed data-silo islands is a positive step, the real question is what does data portability actually mean? Data portability is defined as the ability to “bring your identity, friends, conversations, files and histories with you, without having to manually add them to each new service.” Does this really solve the most important issue that users face when spelunking the depths of the social networking space? This is the fundamental defect with the notion of data portability on the closed Web. The duplication of a user’s ...
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12.02.10Flowing Your Identity Through the Social WebSome social networking platforms are beginning to buy into data portability. Whereas any step toward opening up the closed data-silo islands is a positive step, the real question is what does data portability actually mean? Data portability is defined as the ability to “bring your identity, friends, conversations, files and histories with you, without having to manually add them to each new service.” Does this really solve the most important issue that users face when spelunking the depths of the social networking space? This is the fundamental defect with the notion of data portability on the closed Web. The duplication of a user’s ...
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02.25.10A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic MicrobloggingIn my last article, Flocking To the Stream, I ended with this thought about the growing issue of social-networking fatigue: …as the number of streams continue to increase and as the flow rate of each stream picks up, people will grow tired of having to subscribe to, having to join yet-another-stream phenomenon (YASP). Does the Web truly need additional stream providers each with their own data silos? Is there a user-centric solution to this rapidly growing, overflowing-stream issue that puts YASP to rest once and for all? This article answers these two questions in great detail but the succinct preview version is ...
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02.18.10Flocking To the StreamI recently began to go through some article backlogs on the websites of various people whose thoughts and perspectives I want to understand better. One such person with whom I’m trying to play catch up is Nova Spivack. If you don’t follow Nova then I suggest taking the time to remedy that egregious error. Since I’m basically working through Nova’s article archive in reverse chronological order, it may very well be that in the future, I’ll scribe thoughts on some of his even older ruminations. So, if that occurs, please pardon this information time dilation. The Stream I read Nova’s article, Welcome to ...
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CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
Non-exec Director of Queensland Kids
Ex CIO/CTO of Ozmota, Benefon and Voxson.Education
Executive MBA from QUT
High Distinction average
Singapore Airlines International Business Award
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Computer Science from QUT
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