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
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

Manage your personal information space with Midgard