Flowing out of the news, Phil chats briefly about his discussions with folks about how data portability will impact advertising. Similar to VRM, as we learned in our previous discussion with Joe Andrieu, it seems clear that businesses and consumers will benefit from standardized portable data.
Working toward making data more portable, Phil also talks about the DataPortability “Do It Yourself” projects he and David Recordon bandied about at a recent meetup in San Francisco. While it’s still getting off the ground, he’s working to formalize a number of small projects that can easily be implemented.
Our feature discussion is with Eran Hammer-Lahav about the XRDS-Simple specification he recently authored. He leads us through the history from his time working on the oAuth specification, and how the simplification of XRDS is complementary to other easily-implemented discovery techniques.
Thanks to everyone spreading the word, we’re really starting to pick up some speed. In the third espisode of the DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast show, hosts Trent and Steve are joined by Christian Scholz (aka MrTopf) in a chat with Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate at Google’s OpenSocial project.
After the news, the conversation starts with presentations that Christian’s been giving on DataPortability at various meetups in Germany, London, and virtually as part of the Second Life OpenGrid Project.
From there we dive into the discussion with Kevin and what’s up in OpenSocial, and how developers can get on board. He also mentioned participating in small coding projects proposed by DataPortability Project members Phil Wolf and David Recordon (who we hope to have on soon to talk more about it). There’s also a brief discussion about Google’s OpenID support and how to test out the Social Graph API.
What started as an innocent research project into the communities related to the DataPortability Project has taken on a life of its own. While chatting with pioneering leaders in the portable data space, I realized the conversations may be valuable for others to hear as well.
The concept was well received, but some folks suggested a more formalized structure would be helpful. Enter Steve Greenberg and we bounced around a few ideas, coming up with what we’re calling the “DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast“. We’ll produce a show a week, leading with a few short news snippets, and a long format discussion with one or more guests working in and around the portable data world.
In this espisode of the DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast, Trent and Steve chat with Kingsley Idehen, CEO of OpenLink Software, about his views of data portability and accessibility.
The DataPortability: In Motion Podcast was a series of roundtable discussions about the DataPortability Project in specific, and efforts involved in data portability in general. The series of 13 episodes were produced and hosted by J. Trent Adams and Steve Greenberg.
3/28/2008: Kingsley Idehen, CEO of OpenLink Software, about his views of data portability and accessibility. Details | Listen | Comment
4/4/2008: Kaliya Hamlin, Data Sharing Summit; Joe Andrieu, VRM Project; Danny Ayers DataPortability song. Details | Listen | Comment
4/11/2008: Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate, Google and OpenSocial Project; Christian Scholz (aka MrTopf) Details | Listen | Comment
4/18/2008: Phil Wolff, Editor at Skype Journal; Eran Hammer-Lahav, Editor of XRDS-Simple Details | Listen | Comment
4/25/2008: Jonathan Vanasco, CEO of FindMeOn.com and founder of the OpenSN.org Details | Listen | Comment
5/2/2008: Paul Trevithick, CEO of Parity and the Founder of the Higgins Project Details | Listen | Comment
5/9/2008: Danny Ayers, Semantic Web Developer at Talis; Brady Brim-Deforest, founder of Human Global Media Details | Listen | Comment
5/16/2008: Plaxo - Joseph Smarr, Chief Platform Architect, and John McCrae, VP Marketing; Google - Kevin Marks, Developer Advocate for OpenSocial Details | Listen | Comment
5/23/2008: Guest: Robert Scoble, Managing Director of FastCompany.tv Details | Listen | Comment
5/30/2008: Guest: R. Mark Adams, Ph.D., Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton Details | Listen | Comment
