Posts Tagged ‘WebID’
Who Should Own the Internet?
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
This image is a tracing of all the Internet traffic circa late 2006. It is licensed under a Creative Commons License (by-nc-sa/1.0) and created by http://opte.org/
As I began to compose a response to Nova’s query, it soon became clear that I had too much to say for a blog comment and decided that it was more fitting to write an article for my own site and then simply point Nova to it. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, freedoms, identity 2.0, leadership, privacy, privacy 2.0, SocialWeb, Web of Data, WebID
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 1 Comment »
Flowing Your Identity Through the Social Web
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010Some 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? Read more »
Tags: data silos, identity 2.0, privacy, SocialWeb, WebID
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 6 Comments »
Thinking Outside the Privacy Box
Monday, June 7th, 2010When it comes to issues of privacy and identity, the Web continues to experience growing pains. People speak of privacy and identity management as if they were separate issues. I believe that managing your personal identity is tantamount to managing your privacy. In effect, what is termed Privacy 2.0 and Identity 2.0 are really one and the same thing. Read more »
Tags: foaf+ssl, identity 2.0, privacy 2.0, SocialWeb, WebID
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 9 Comments »
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, identity 2.0, privacy 2.0, WebID
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 2 Comments »
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, Facebook, freedoms, identity 2.0, privacy, privacy 2.0, WebID
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, identity 2.0, microblogging, privacy 2.0, sioc, SocialWeb, Twitter, WebID, WordPress Plugins
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 26 Comments »