{"id":446,"date":"2009-09-27T14:25:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T13:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robinjakobsson.se\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2009-11-15T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T17:15:00","slug":"the-data-pwnage-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinjakobsson.se\/blog\/2009\/09\/27\/the-data-pwnage-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"The data pwnage issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I depend on web services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\">Gmail<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.google.com\">Google Calendar<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\">Google Document<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/last.fm\">Last.fm<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skype.com\">Skype<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\">Delicious<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these web services are easy to use and free.<br \/>\nI love to use them, they keep my head clear and makes my life easier.<\/p>\n<p>The data and content that I produce is stored on their servers and very often there is not an option to store it elsewhere. I usually think that this is a feature, but lately I&#8217;ve gotten more and more concerned about it.<br \/>\nIs this really what we wanted the Internet to become?<br \/>\nWeb 2.0 seems like interactive television, and these services fit good as channels.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet is decentralized, open and free.<br \/>\nWhat happens if Flickr dies, or Google? Facebook? The power of the Internet is that it&#8217;s decentralized by nature. If one server goes down, it doesn&#8217;t mean that any other one will. That&#8217;s how it should be!<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of different initiatives out there promoting data portability between different services. Mostly it seems to be a matter of comfort:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why should I have to re-enter the same data (name, age, occupation etc) when it&#8217;s already available at one place?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two years ago, 5\/9\/2009 a blog post entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/opensocialweb.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/05\/bill-of-rights\/\">A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web<\/a>&#8221; declared that users of social networks should be entitled to the following rights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ownership of their own personal information, including:\n<ul>\n<li>their own profile data<\/li>\n<li>the list of people they are connected to<\/li>\n<li>the activity stream of content they create;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others; and<\/li>\n<li>Freedom to grant persistent access to their personal information to trusted external sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sites supporting these rights shall:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow their users to syndicate their own profile data, their friends list, and the data that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shared with them via the service, using a persistent URL or API token and open data formats;<\/li>\n<li>Allow their users to syndicate their own stream of activity outside the site;<\/li>\n<li>Allow their users to link from their profile pages to external identifiers in a public way; and<\/li>\n<li>Allow their users to discover who else they know is also on their site, using the same external identifiers made available for lookup within the service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is all jolly and good \ud83d\ude42 ! A little less than a year later, all sorts of initiatives to make the different networks more open popped up! <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OpenSocial\">OpenSocial<\/a> is one.<\/p>\n<p>The data pwnage and location problem still exist though, and I&#8217;ve not yet heard about a solution to it. Is this the next big question for all of these services? When will the users demand full control over their data?<\/p>\n<p>As the Internet matures, so does it&#8217;s users.<br \/>\nAnd then it&#8217;s only a matter of time and a few scandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I depend on web services: Gmail Google Calendar Google Document Last.fm Flickr Twitter Vimeo Facebook Skype Delicious All of these web services are easy to use and free. I love to use them, they keep my head clear and makes my life easier. 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