Manage your personal information space with Midgard

Henri Bergius [email_address] http://bergie.iki.fi

Finnish Midgard solution provider www.nemein.com

Midgard is different

Joint venture between several companies CMS Watch: “ Hanseatic league of open source content management ”

“ Lego brick model” Connect standard MidCOM components together to build your site, then customize layout and configuration

More than just PHP Full DB abstraction GLib Replication Indexing Multilang

Full DB abstraction

GLib

Replication

Indexing

Multilang

Why social web?

Sharing is natural Image: Wikipedia

Information = Survival

No time for stories

Stories = Information

Storytelling for modern world

Social web = Stories

Mobile tools

Not everything is sunny in Web 2.0 world

Losing control of your data

Isolated data silos

Opening silos: FaceBook platform

Opening silos: APIs and you

Personal hub: Jaiku

Personal hub: Wordpress

Better way: Treat content from social services as equal to local content

Integration technologies RSS JSON Microformats Flickr API del.icio.us API XML-RPC MagpieRSS PhotoCasts GeoRSS json_decode() del.icio.us digg hKit hCard + XFN hCalendar phpFlickr Services_Delicious PEAR XML-RPC

Importing blog entries

Importing photos

Importing location

Personal hub: Midgard

Personal hub: Presence

Personal hub: Photos

Personal hub: Location

Personal hub: Microsummary

Personal hub: Microformats

Wrapping up

Social web = Stories

Stories = Information

Information = Survival

Head out and explore

Escape the silos Treat content from social services as equal to local content

Provide data feeds

www.microformats.org www.midgard-project.org bergie.iki.fi Photos by myself, Tuomas Kuosmanen, Toni Eliasz and Fredrik Koivusalo