Migrating from Kindle to iBooks - zacwe.st
A step-by-step guide to unDRMing your Kindle books—a prudent course of action given Amazon’s recent unilateral wiping of Kindles.
Tags: portability
Draggables
Watch this space. Glenn has a really interesting idea (and implementation) for exchanging structured data between browser windows using drag'n'drop.
Minimal Competence: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping. - Laughing Meme
Kellan outlines the bare minimum you should expect from any service that you are putting data into.
Liminal Existence: Identity
Blaine outlines the vision for Webfinger.
Identify - Firefox entension | Madgex Lab
Okay, I know I said "holy freakin' crap!" the last time I linked to one of Glenn's Social Graph API experiments but now he's gone and created a Firefox plug-in: press alt-i and you can see the social graph for anyone's site. Holy freakin' crap!
husk.org. chaff. Aggregation and the Edge.
Paul Mison shares his thoughts on moving towards a decentralised web of services rather than silos of data. "Now I'm wondering: is there a space for a piece of user-installable software, like Movable Type or Wordpress, that aggregates their data from sites across the web, and then presents it as a site? If there is, is it even possible to write it in a way that anyone who couldn't have written it themselves can even use it?"
Experiments in Data Portability - Screencast
Glenn has created a screencast of his superb Skillswap presentation, syncing up the audio with the slides.
Why you should have a Website
Steven Pemberton's talk from XTech 2008 in Dublin is becoming more relevant with each passing day as yet another service shuts down; Pownce, Ficlets, Stikkit...
Digital Web Magazine - Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
Ben has written a superb article outlining the hows and whys of distributed social networks with hCard and XFN, finishing with an inspiring call to arms.
Official Google Data APIs Blog: OAuth for Google Data APIs
All of Google's data APIs (Calendar, Blogger, Contacts, etc.) all now support OAuth. Excellent!
Scott Kveton · I’m for the Open Web
Scott Kveton rips Chris Saad a new one, and rightly so. We all sent Chris the same message at Social Graph Foo Camp, he's had enough time to shape up but instead things have become increasingly hype-laden and bullshitty with him.
The day the music died [dive into mark]
Excellent explanation of DRM by Mark Pilgrim, prompted by MSN Music's gunshot to the head.
OAuth support for Google Accounts and Contacts API - OAuth | Google Groups
As promised by Kevin Marks in the Q&A after my panel at South by Southwest, the Google Contacts API now supports OAuth. w00t!
Licence to Roam » BarcampBrighton - Portable Information
Liveblogged notes from a discussion I participated in at BarCamp Brighton 2 about Social Network Portability.
4 Technologies for Portability in Social Networks: A Primer - ReadWriteWeb
A nice summary of the technologies presented at my SXSW panel.
Google Code Blog: URLs are People, Too
This is great news! Brad Fitzpatrick and Kevin Marks have built a new Google API that will spider XFN links.
The Existential DiSo Interview on Vimeo
Chris interviews himself about portable social networks and distributed identity.
It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers | FactoryCity
Chris says that URLs are people too: "You’ve got my URL, now, tell me, what else do you really need?"
Preoccupations: Adactio hits St Paul's
David follows up on my talk at St Paul's with cornucopia of thoughts and links that's more in-depth than the talk itself.
Giant Global Graph | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
TIm Berners-Lee explains what the "graph" part of "social graph" means. I'm still not keen on the term but I really love the idea (although I also disagree about the building blocks required today).
DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards
A new site to track the building blocks of portable social networks: OpenID, OAuth, hCard, XFN and more.
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Another sign up form that features hCard input (like Satisfaction). Choose a service (e.g. Flickr, Last.fm, Twitter) or enter your own URL.
Web2Summit: Opening Up the Social Graph
David Recordon announces a new developer tool for tracking status changes on social networking sites.
Designing For Hackability » SlideShare
Brian Oberkirch's presentation from Webmaster Jam looks excellent.
Six Apart - News and Events: We Are Opening the Social Graph
Six Apart are getting ready to make portable social networks a reality. Watch this space for code.
The Man in Blue > There are no social networks
Cameron's plea for social network transparency and portability is one of the most lucid and succinct yet.
Open Social Graph @ Plaxo
Try Plaxo's identity consolidator for yourself. Give it a URL that includes rel="me".
Plaxo to ship online identity aggregator based on microformats | ScobleShow: Videoblog about geeks, technology, and developers
The guys at Plaxo have not only implemented social network portability, they're sharing the code.
Portable social networking // James Aylett's diary
James has some quick'n'dirty Python code for extracting relationship data from social networking sites.
Social Network Portability | Google Groups
A mailing list to discuss portable social networks.
Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph
Another take on social network portability.
social-network-portability - Microformats
Tantek, Brian, Daniel and others got together in Ritual Roasters to discuss making portable social networks a reality. Here are the notes.
Mircoformats and portable social network
Glenn weighs in with his thoughts on portable social networks through microformats. Looks like the Backnetwork app might be the first to start doing this.