Posts Tagged ‘data silos’
Repackaging the Promise of the Social Semantic Web
Saturday, May 15th, 2010I recently read Robert Scoble’s blog post, Privacy Reboot Needed. He makes a compelling case for the possible benefits accrued to each Web citizen that volunteers to expose their entire activity stream–across their various social networks–for all to see. Read more »
Tags: data silos, foaf+ssl, identiy 2.0, privacy 2.0, WebID
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 1 Comment »
Regaining Control of Privacy and Identity: It’s up to Each Individual
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010This is a follow-up post to my article, Privacy in the Facebook Era. It was originally a reply to a comment by Chris Messina in that post. As this topic continues to be relevant, I’ve decided to extract my comment from that post, revise it, add to it, and turn it into an article. Read more »
Tags: data silos, freedoms, identiy 2.0, privacy, privacy 2.0
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 3 Comments »
A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010In 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 as follows: Read more »
Tags: data silos, foaf, foaf+ssl, identiy 2.0, microblogging, privacy 2.0, sioc, Twitter, WebID, WordPress Plugins
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 24 Comments »
Flocking To the Stream
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010I 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 Read more »
Tags: data silos, microblogging, Twitter
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 6 Comments »


