Understanding the Basics of Personal Data: Vendors, Users, and You (Web 2.0 NYC)

Understanding the Basics of Personal Data: Vendors, Users, and You Web 2.0 NYC #w2e_strat Daniela Barbosa & Chris Saad DataPortability.org

Who are we? That’s boring - Just Google Us Basically we helped start ‘The DataPortability Project’

Web 1.0 Document Web

Web 2.0 Social Web

The Next Web Personal Web

The ability to connect to, control, share and remix your personal data between trusted applications

Tech Inflection Points

Standardized PC Architecture

Windows Standardized Operating System A computer on every desk

IP The Internet

HTTP/HTML The Web

Hardware Applications Network Presentation Data?

Imagine...

Owning your Relationships

Controlling your Relationships They follow your lead

Controlling your Calendar

Controlling your Images, Video and other Content

Today: users participate in Applications

Today: users participate in Applications Service XYZ

Instead, Imagine

Tomorrow: Apps participate with Users

Why?

Sync your friends between Twitter and Del.icio.us and... and keep them synced

Go to Kodak.com & easily print your Flickr and Facebook Photos with just a few clicks

Play World of Warcraft with your Facebook friends (Personally I prefer EVE)

See your own pictures superimposed on the photo frames at Walmart.com with your permission of course

Move home and automatically update relevant utilities and services

We Share

We Comment

We Rate

We Create

User signs up They fill out their profile They add their friends They interact with your stuff You make money They share your stuff You get more traffic

Worth it? Beautiful, beautiful data

Really?

Instead, Imagine

Tomorrow: Apps participate with Users

User signs up They fill out their profile They add their friends They interact with your stuff You make money They share your stuff You get more traffic

Users Install your App They fill out their profile They add their friends They interact with your stuff You make money They share your stuff You get more traffic

Users Install your App Their Profile is handed to you They add their friends They interact with your stuff You make money They share your stuff You get more traffic

Users Install your App Their Profile is handed to you Their friends come with them They interact with your stuff You make money They share your stuff You get more traffic

And…

More data Continuous updates Reduced network fatigue More usage of everything

“ Data Portability”

How?

project

Is this really Possible?

It’s already happening! OpenID, OAuth, XFN, APML, iCal, hCal, XMPP, RSS, Atom OPML etc...

Still some open Questions Security, Privacy, Who owns what, Business Models, User Education

All the big vendors are playing

But who cares about them!

The DataPortability Project is an open, grass-roots effort.

An experiment in radical transparency and open participation “Participant Democracy”

It will be free

Everyone will own it

Everyone can participate to help make it happen

That means YOU Could change the web as we know it

Yes YOU What are you still sitting there for?

What?

Translation From geek to businesses, mainstream developers and end-users

Best Practices Reduce the noise and increase the signal. A solution vendors can bank on.

Advocacy Supporting Materials, Conferences, Books, political pressure, discussion

Example: Service Provider Grid

Service Provider grid that is maintained to ensure that information provided is valid and illustrates the state of what features are available and if providers are using open standards to implement them.