An examination of the current data portability design patterns used in Social Media sites. Looking at a possible new Open Stack concept to create true plug and play interfaces for user to exchange data.

1. Glenn Jones Skillswap, Brighton 25 November 2008 Experiments in Data Portability

2. Social Media Aggregation Utility Conversation

3. To Consult, Design, Educate and Advocate Interoperable Data Portability to Users, Developers and Vendors.

4. Portability Importing your friends

7. Portability Importing your profile

9. Discovery Finding your profiles on the web

13. The Problem Building a good user experience is difficult

19. RSS/Atom feeds The true data portability success story

20. You can integrate thousands of data sources into new applications

21. You can simply chain data sources together so the sum is more valuable than its parts

22. You can create pluggable tools for your users

24. Portability Open stack API’s

25. Demo

27. <Service priority=&quot;20&quot;> <Type> http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard </Type> <Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/contenttype/ profile </Type> <Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/resoucetype/ item </Type> <Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/action/ read </Type> <Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/authorisation/ oauth </Type> <MediaType> text/html </MediaType> <URI simple:httpmethod=&quot; GET &quot; > http://ufapidemo.madgex.com/profile/ </URI> </Service> XDRS-Simple file describes services Uses a simple meta tag to find XDRS-Simple xml files

29. Open Stack Social Graph Search XDRS-Simple URI Templates OAuth microformats

30. Open Stack Social Graph Search XDRS-Simple URI Templates OAuth microformats Web wide discovery Site API/Services discovery URL description Authentication & access Standard formats

32. The Future

33. We don’t really own data in the same way we own property

34. An old twitter Heading over to the Eagle for something to eat with Madgex folk 12:35 AM Oct 9 th 2008 The value of most data decays over time

35. Data can be replicated and its ownership diluted or lost

37. Adactio’s music taste – 24 Nov 2008

38. { &quot;mobile phone&quot;: { &quot;value&quot;: &quot;0.2&quot;, &quot;from&quot;: &quot;Moz-History&quot;, &quot;updated&quot;: &quot;Date(1227539489853+0000)&quot; } }, { &quot; yahoo &quot;: { &quot;value&quot;: &quot; 0.4 &quot;, &quot;from&quot;: &quot;Moz-History&quot;, &quot;updated&quot;: &quot; 2008-11-13T13:09:09&quot; } }, { &quot; twitter &quot;: { &quot;value&quot;: &quot; 0.4 &quot;, &quot;from&quot;: &quot;Moz-History&quot;, &quot;updated&quot;:2008-11-13T13:09:09&quot; } }, { &quot; authentication &quot;: { &quot;value&quot;: &quot; 0.3 &quot;, &quot;from&quot;: &quot;Moz-History&quot;, &quot;updated&quot;: &quot; 2008-11-13T13:09:09&quot; } }, { &quot; address book &quot;: { &quot;value&quot;: &quot; 0.3 &quot;, &quot;from&quot;: &quot;Moz-History&quot;, &quot;updated&quot;: &quot;2008-11-13T13:09:09&quot; } },

40. The Ideal Data Portability Future Simple plug and play interfaces where the technology just works

41. Microformats Parsers http://microformats.org/wiki/parsers Microformats Parser - Optimus - XSLT http://microformatique.com/optimus/ Microformats Parser - Cognition - Perl http://buzzword.org.uk/cognition/ Google Social Graph API http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/ Social Graph Node Mapper http://code.google.com/p/google-sgnodemapper/ URI-Template http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gregorio-uritemplate-03 XRDS-simple http://xrds-simple.net/core/1.0/ Portable Contacts API http://portablecontacts.net/ Blog http://www.glennjones.net/ Madgex Labs http://lab.madgex.com/ Backnetwork http://lab.backnetwork.com/

42. APML http://www.apml.org/ TasteBroker experimental API for APML http://tastebroker.org/ APML JSON Tag Cloud http://bmn.name/examples/apml/

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