DataPortability on Social Networking

Re: [DataPortability-Public] Sending message from one social netwok to another

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:33 GMT

You could do this a few ways. In facebook you could implement a plugin
that reads from an external database I think. Or you could have people
register on both social networks and then supply you with the
usernames and passwords, and then also confirm that people are the
same across the networks (i.e., identity / identification). There's

Sending message from one social netwok to another

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:43 GMT

Hi everyone,

Is it not possible to send a text message from one social network to
another social network..

If I like to implement this, where can I start. Is it about using
OpenID or create a message store from the sender.Thanks

DataPortability Research: invitation

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:40 GMT

Hi everyone,
I am looking for people to join me in a new task force I will be proposing
to the Steering Group.
Essentially, I would like the DataPortability Project to use its
independence to create unique insight into the world - from how people use
social networking to what consumer recognition is of open standards. We will

Announcing the DataPortability.org EULA and TOS Task Force

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:44 GMT

Announcing the DataPortability.org EULA and TOS Task Force

Following the example of the Creative Commons, the goal of this task
force is to identify and name key concepts that help users and service
providers understand what each other expects. The output will be a
set of documents that can be referenced or included in EULA and TOS

Re: [DataPortability-Public] Re: Facebook data portability

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:59 GMT

Hello, my name is Bryan, first time poster (or I haven't posted in a
good time here), I'm found more and more contributing to discussions
on open source manufacturing and automation discussion groups more
than anything else, but I do still pay attention to the computational
social networking issues of our time. I was approached by a banking

foaf+ssl: a first implementation

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:02 GMT

foaf+ssl is a very simple protocol to enable secure distributed social
networks. We have a first implementation
of it working, which I describe here
[link]
This is important for data portability as it shows how one can allow
social networks to link to each other without necessarily needing the

You don’t nor need to own your data

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:23 GMT

One of the biggest questions the DataPortability project has grappled with (and where the entire industry is not at consensus), is a fairly basic question with some profound consequences: who owns your data. Well I think I have an answer to the question now, which I’ve now cross-validated across multiple domains. Given we live in the Information Age, this certainly matters in every respect.

So who owns “your data”? Not you. Or the other guy. Or the government, and the MicroGooHoo corporate monolith. Actually, no one does. And if they do, it doesn’t matter.

People like to conflate the concept of property ownership to that of data ownership. I mean it’s you right? You own your house so surely, you own your e-mail address, your name, you date of birth records, your identity. However when you go into the details, from a conceptual level, it doesn’t make sense.

Ownership of data
First of all, let’s define property ownership: "the ability to deny use of an asset by another entity". The reason you can claim status to owning your house, is because you can deny someone else access to your property. Most of us have a fence to separate our property from the public space; others like the hillbilly’s sit in their rocking chair with a shot gun ready to fire. Either way, it’s well understood if someone else owns something, and if you trespass, the dogs will chase after you.

The characteristics of ownership can be summed as

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Re: Healthcare Constituencies [HCTF]

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:24 GMT

At my company, we tend to view these constituencies as payers,
providers and research. Patients (or consumers) are an integral part
of each consitituency, to the point that you can't describe any of
those consitituencies without patients. While government is also
involved in payers, providers and research, it's just one of the

Auto-Filling a Profile when signing up to a new site

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:21 GMT

Hi everyone,

I would like to ask if it is technically possible to do these tasks
like "Auto-Filling a Profile when signing up to a new site" or "Pre-
populating a job application form " using the data that are retrieved
from user profile.

Because, these data are running from a particular server. And the

Re: Data model for social graph

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:03 GMT

Hi Steve,

Thank you very much for your comment.

I did have a look at the social graph from Google, but I could not see
how the service actually work in Facebook or Twitter.

So is it a wrong thing to ask if there is Social graph parser? Where
can I start to to play around with social graph? Can't we not

Re: [DataPortability-Public] Recommend Proposal and Request for Interested participants for Taskforce for Media and Publishing

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:47 GMT

Interesting, thanks Daniela.
I imagine the efforts of Creative Commons would cover a lot of this. But I
think you raise a good point: personal information - the kind we debate
about on social networks as well as health - is merely only one side of the
data portability coin. The other side, is media - and to date, we've had

Re: Facebook data portability

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:54 GMT

Of course there is also the issue that you're "friends" (lets not
forget to mention that social media has complicated this term) may not
want you "dumping" or "listing" or "using" their email addresses and
its unlikely that current Privacy Policies permit data controllers to
allow such processing of your friend's data in this way.

Re: Facebook data portability

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:52 GMT

Re: [DataPortability-Public] Re: Data model for social graph

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:12 GMT

Hi Thomas, Neil,
Are you looking for a ways to model the social graph on your own backend,
or asking about where the data is available?
M
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Steven Greenberg <

Re: [DataPortability-Public] Data model for social graph

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:48 GMT

Facebook does have an API for fetching a list of a user's friends, but:
* It is only available for users who have "added" your application, or
for users that are trusted by the user you're making the request as.
* Facebook's Terms Of Service for the APIs are pretty strict about
creating external copies of data, so you'll want to review that

Data model for social graph

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:35 GMT

Hi everyone,

I am looking for some tutorials to explain whether if it is possible
to retrieve a social graph from Facebook or other social networking
websites and save in in a database.. Is it there a data model for a
social graph.

I understand the concepts of using XFN but I just need to comfirm if I

Re: [DataPortability-Public] Re: Market segmentation data portability

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:36 GMT

Its hard to create derivatives on data when the playing field is
levelled or you must use a standard segmentation. I am all for open
data but not so much on open standard segmentation. Fresh data and
more data is good but that's still a commodity business while
derivatives of data is not therefore should not be commoditzed via

Re: [DataPortability-Public] Market segmentation data portability

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:09 GMT

Jim -
I'm not familiar with a common marketing segmentation standard, but it'd
be interesting to see something like it emerge. Much of the work we did
at matchmine was to encode user preferences into a portable profile that
could be leveraged by media distribution (or marketing) companies.
Segmentation was a profitable byproduct and I could see a focused effort

Data Portability Job Opportunity - DO YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL MIND? (CTO/Technical Co-Founder)

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:05 GMT

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Do you want to disrupt the social media space? Do you believe that
someone has yet to bring a true sense of purpose, relevancy and broad-
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