Tag: data ownership
Data ownership and layer fungibility
The IndieWeb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem
I wrote a post as a submission for the W3C's upcoming Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business. great post to readargue I believe that these compelling business models exist, and that they are most easily discoverable in the enterprise. However, belief is not demonstration: we must continue to test and iterate them. During this exploration phase, this means that, our software and underlying protocols must be easy to write, adapt and change. Ease of development is more important tha
Profile: a serialized novel for email, web, Kindle and ePub
This is an excerpt from a new kind of project for me. Profile is a serial thriller about identity, the Internet and what happens when we trust companies to tell us what is and isn't true. I'm going to treat the whole process - from writing through promotion - like a lean startup; more on that later. Interested? Subscribe to receive news updates via email. It should go without saying that your email address is safe and won't be shared with any third parties. I huddled in the dark, under the woo
The open web is dead. Get over it and do something.
Yesterday, I joined the Post-PC era by upgrading my iPad to iOS 5. Yes, the upgrade process wiped all of my applications and data, but once I'd put everything back together again, the result was a faster, more streamlined device that works much better than it did with iOS 4. I use my iPad for most of my non-work browsing; I also subscribe to the New York Times on it and use it as a Kindle. I also love both audio and video podcasts - for example Kevin Rose's incredibly high-quality Foundation ser
Facebook has no need for deleting data
Niall Kennedy has written an interesting post about Facebook's data storage. They've written a proprietary filesystem to store photos in order to cut costs (up to now they've apparently been adding a $2 million NetApp storage system every week). It turns out they've decided they don't need all the features you'd find in a traditional file system (emphasis mine): Traditional file systems are governed by the POSIX standard governing metadata and access methods for each file. These file systems a