The Burgeoning Openly Owned Web

Nice post Andy.

Perhaps I need to review my mindset totally, and rather than thinking of the linkages in the tiered approach, go for multi-dimensional modes to map how 2 items relate/interact with one another. Mutidimensional scaling techniques perhaps?

So Dave Winer opened up an interesting post on the want of controlling your data. Everyone is crying out for “my data as XML” and this is only a partial requirement of open data. Not only do we need access to the data but full control of that data. As it stands my interpretation of the demand for openness, albeit simple, is like being able to see your money in the bank, manipulate it but never actually get to use it. Kinda like a glass pane in front of your money… you still can’t ultimately control it.

Along with a blog posting by Tim Berners-Lee on “the Graph”, open, controllable data is becoming more and more an issue and one we all should be concerned. This control is something that we hope we can provide by further developing our ideas here!
Another two interesting projects of note are the attention trust and dataportability.org

Technorati Tags: control, data, open, portability

Had a cool conversation with Gnome tonight.

We started talking about Web 2.0, social networks and then Metcalfe’s Network effect.

Then we saw this Oreilly post, which took us back to hadoop.

And then there’s a call for a Free Data movement, see above.

Finally, the Attention Trust sounds rather familiar to a certain manifesto…. Perhaps not quite the same, but certainly overlapping.

We talk a lot about pervasive storage as part of the open web concept, and it’s interesting to hear a discussion about the future, courtesy El Reg.  And if you don’t have 46 minutes to spare, listen to a couple of minutes from 13:00 (the dude with the blocked nose).