I’m glade a lot of these attempts at data portability from google, myspace, and facebook have been getting bad press. They are at best halfhearted attempts at data portability with the data still tethered at the original site.
I am at best a modest programmer and as I build Books I Am Reading (BIAR) I am looking for different ways to add features that are fully integrated with out needing to reinvent the wheel. If I could add a friends module I would love to. But they are not giving out friends data, just links to friends on other sites. I don’t need links to myspace. I need links to other profile on BIAR.
Recently I put a lot of thought in to adding Disqus comments to the site. I was excited about not needing to build a comment system for a few days. Disqus has a good comment module with great features.
But it is just not able to integrate enough to truly feel part of a site. If I log in there is no way to also log you in to disqus forcing people to log in twice. Most likely most comments would end up being anonymous. There is also no easy way to associate a comment thread with a profile and have the person emailed. Perhaps disqus was not meant for this application but it illustrates a common problem with how social modules are being built.
These will not meet the requirements of data portability until all these modules can freely talk to one another. The question is how much of Books I Am Reading will I have to build before these easier options become available? Hopefully the data portability wars will force it to happen sooner then later.
“Teens are far more competent than we assume.” I never know what to do with these kind of articles. It all makes sense but I don’t know how to navigate what should be done and the society that disagrees.
Yet another amazing video about how banks create money from nothing and how eventually the entire system will crumble. It’s kind of sad that so many documentaries can expose such fundamental flaws in the world that are never talked about.
Amazon finally released a mp3 widget to embed songs from their digital catalog. Not sure I’m wild about the design but hopefully they will work on it. Also it seem to not work at all in firefox 3 and I had to use ie7 which is a pain. Now they just need to catch up with myspace and allow full songs to play too and we’ll be golden. Check out the embed below:
Is marvel creating a mini marvel universe in their blockbuster movies? One off used to be their thing. Spiderman here and X-Men there. But with SHEILD introduced at the end of Iron Man and the mention of Avengers might they be trying to tie a lot of these moves together. Their list of up coming movies makes it seem like they might be more intertwined in the future. Iron Man’s second movie on April 30, 2010, Thor’s movie on June 4, 2010, First Avenger: Captain America on May 6, 2011, and The Avengers in July 2011. Sounds like a great build up to the Avenger’s movie.
I have not read the book but this is the single best speech I’ve seen in I don’t know how long. We are definitely not better off then our parents and grandparents.
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