dataPortability.org

[yesthattom]

Non-geeks may not understand why this is an important issue. I think this video explains it well:

DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut Media on Vimeo.

Comments

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Huh? That's a contentless video. Pure marketing, no technical details at all. Infact it doesn't actually _say_ what it does or how you'd use it, merely just some fuzzy-wuzzy "put your data here and then magic happens" cloud idea.

Umm.

[awfief.livejournal.com]

So I can see how it's a time waste, and how you distribute your information to many different sites, which then "own" that information. However, a network-based filesystem still doesn't have me owning the info, as it's stored on the network, on a filesystem I don't own.

Plus, it opens you up to privacy issues. I think non-geeks are going to like the result better than geeks. I like having www.sheeri.com my professional identity and awfief.livejournal.com my personal identity. I don't necessarily want the same avatars, etc.