Last night I had a nightmare. I sat at my computer, and my Vista morphed into a Web app called Woogle, which included a productivity suite, a default search page, alerts, news, a Web analytics page, and all my social networking stuff in one place (and much, much more, all for fwee). I turned around [...]
Tags: google, open standards, OpenSocial
by Lau-RANT I get why Charlie Odonnell is terminally cranky about the data portability issue. (I was going to write, “I grok”, but my wife tells me only people who were frying on acid reading Stranger in a Strange Land say that, so…). To give some context: there’s an industry effort under way to create [...]
Tags: data portability, open standards, openID
By Laurent Liscia and Pierre-Loic Assayag SUMMARY What is Traackr’s goal? Our goal is to collect data from a variety of sites in order to calculate a user’s buzz, popularity and reach (which are proprietary definitions). Today this data is not readily available and requires ad hoc extraction processes that are not convenient to the [...]
Tags: data control, data ownership, online reputation, open standards, ORMS, privacy, security, social networking, XML standards
Authors: Laurent Liscia & Pierre-Loic Assayag Summary: Every social networking Web site claims to have a “viral accelerator”, a mechanism by which joining the site causes other people to join, in a never-ending beneficial feedback loop. Alas, the loop has only benefitted those sites and not the marketers they ought to be selling to. Why? [...]
Tags: micro-marketing, open API, open standards, viral accelrator
