Since yesterday’s announcements from Google and Facebook (a couple of hours apart) that they would both make their social ID standard available to all sites, the (micro)blogosphere has been quite active to look at the merits of each solution and try to predict who will emerge victorious. Social data standards are paramount to TRAACKR and [...]

Tags: api, facebook, facebookconnect, google, openID, standards

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

Just returned from the exciting OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) conference in Santa-Clara this week. It brought together heavy-hitters such as Bea and Oracle (who, amusingly, became one on Tuesday), but also the likes of Nomura Securities, Software AG, various Chinese startups and mighty Uncle Sam via several branches of government. [...]

Tags: influence, mavens, online reputation, openID, ORMS