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DataPortability gathers existing open standards into a blueprint for a social, open, remixable web where your online identity, media, contacts and content can follow you wherever you go. Find out more at dataportability.org

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Written, designed and edited by Michael Pick, smashcut-media.com

Music - "Bongo Avenger" - Eric & Ryan Kilkenny: CC Attrib. Non Commercial

Hands photo: Scol22 - Stock.xchng

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  • kumar 2 years ago
    this is the future
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    And the none too distant, hopefully!
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  • doncrowley 2 years ago
    Cool Video Michael I've used it in a blog post if that's ok
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  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Thanks Don! Much appreciated
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  • leelefever 2 years ago
    Very nice!
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Thanks Lee, big fan of your work!
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  • mikehedge 2 years ago
    genius work. thank you!
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Thanks Mike! More where this came from coming soon. Love what you do :)
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  • David Le Faucheur 2 years ago
    I discovered this project. I am really looking forward !
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Thanks for the comment and the "like"! Think it's going to be a great year for dataportability
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  • is this not a rip off of another standard that was doing the rounds well before you? - great video thou.
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  • ah i see. apml is part of it. so you basically wanted to take control over it. i wonder if someone will intergrate dataportability too. LOL.
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  • i'm looking forward to the next big thing that intergrates dataportability, has another group of echo chamber collectives and has a better more impact video to try and tempt me that they are the alpha and the omega of the digital landscape. Stop making up new formats, concepts and build them.

    Stop the spin. Make it happen. This ego technology segregation has to stop. It's boring.
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Hi Phil

    As Chris points out, dataportability isn't a standard so much as it's a blueprint for cross-promoting and unifying an existing stack of standards. Nobody's trying to reinvent the wheel here, but the need for bringing atomized standards together is clearly one that people are responding to.

    Re: APML, some of the same people are heavily involved in both projects. dataportability isn't about absorbing or stealing the thunder from existing standards, but on the contrary giving vendors (and ultimately end users) a way to integrate them effectively and free up our data.

    As for making it happen, anyone interested can play a part in how things are shaping up at the public google group, which you can access from dataportability.org. Hope to see you there!
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  • lol chris. "malfunction" - sorry mate, but everything you interact with is not a computer. my opinion - i have a right to it. as for smoking, i gave that up years ago, i met too many nutjobs like you that lived in a bubble.
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  • smashface - thanks for your reply. i just wish to see these thing intergrated quickly instead of what appears to be a rehash of the same ideas. great video, respect for that and your very talented.

    Still cannot help feel that it was an idea that came out of europe and was jumped all over by the yanks as a control mechanism. I see it a lot these days, twitter came out and was awesome, and then magically pownce appeared. I'm glad to see both apml people are involved with it.

    That is where i will always feel the ideas and concept came from. Also, maybe i just did not like the contributors bit on the bottom of dataportability. I suppose it was because i saw apml first. I have a thing about people giving the right people credit. Too many people exist in the technology world surfing off the developments and original ideas of others.

    Like i said, just my opinion. I am allowed those still right? :) - either way, whatever format comes there is no doubt that we need to develop a footprint for the media(s) we produce around the net on a variety of sites. Just hope we do not get into a constant state of flux regarding what is cool and useful.

    Else how are we ever gonna get the mass communities of the world to understand what it is they need to learn about. The more things we label the more non computer people turn off.
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  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Thanks Phil.

    I think we're in agreement about the need for getting things moving and actualized, and that's very much what the emerging dataportability blueprint is about - not the buzzwords or the flashy videos - but giving vendors a means of navigating and integrating what's already out there, ready to do the job. More than anything, any realization of truly portable data is going to need consensus to make it happen - that's what this is all about.

    Of course you are very welcome to your opinions and comments here are open! Ditto at the dataportability forums.

    Not sure about the European/US divide though - there are actually a fair few Aussies at the heart of the dataportability workgroup (and behind APML), but I think there's a good international spread of folks involved considering the concentration of tech in sillicon valley (where Twitter is based).
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  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    We'd love to hear your ideas for the next DataPortability video. Check out the forums here to have your say - tinyurl.com/38foq7
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  • jason noname 2 years ago
    Well I never care about credit but I think the I was talking about mixing this stuff up over two years ago. geekspeaker.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!588D139CAFEFE462!309.entry?wa=wsignin1.0

    and more here

    geekspeaker.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!588D139CAFEFE462!310.entry

    That doesn't mean I did anything to get the thing moving. I don't even know if my thinking was origninal but I don't care I'm glad to see this portability stuff refined and moving forward.

    Jason Bogovich
    Aka Geek Speaker
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  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Hi Jason

    Thanks for stopping by! That's great - all knowledge is built on the work of past research. I think that's one of the things that makes the commons so unstoppable.

    It'd be great to see you over at dataportability.org. We've just launched action groups to push things forward, and the discussions can always use smart folk like yourself to chime in: groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public/topics
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  • Beez 2 years ago
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  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Beez - many thanks for blogging the video! I'll have to ask @Cleverclogs for the executive summary :) Love your blog design btw.
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  • Kevin Russell 2 years ago
    bring on dataportability spa for the SN beleaguered
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    It's coming! With the new action groups and some more big announcements on the the horizon, this is moving at a good old pace.

    Get stuck in today at groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public/web/action-groups
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  • Ashod Apakian 2 years ago
    No doubt about it - DP is in our future.

    blog.mebeam.com/2008/01/data-portabilit.html
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Hey Ashod! Cool to see you here. Thanks for blogging the video!
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  • bernardo 2 years ago
    I've been reading Google Groups DP posts in quite a while and I think this project is really amazing. Michael, just blogged your cool video (machine-human.com). And by the way, tell the Evangelists they're doing a nice job.
    Best from Rio!
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Hey machine-human, thanks a lot for dropping by here and checking out the DP groups. Awesome that you blogged it too, much appreciated. Liking your blog a lot - very cool stuff.

    Look forward to seeing you over in DP-land.

    Greets from Sapporo!
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  • Leoloves 2 years ago
    Sounds great! When?
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    The more people that get involved, the sooner it happens!
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  • Leoloves 2 years ago
    @Smashcut media: Ah thanks, I already understood and joined the dataportability google group. I'll see what I can do. Good luck with your project and my compliments for your films, it looks great!
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    @Leoloves - awesomeness! See you in there :)

    And thanks re: video. We're working on cooking up the next one soon.
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  • Nick Humphries 2 years ago
    Awesome HDness.
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Thanks Nick
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  • chris windley 2 years ago
    Found you from a blog on The Community Girl.

    Excellent video on a subject that we have been discussing for a while.
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Awesome, thanks Chris!
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  • David Carmona 2 years ago
    very creative motion graphics....,...i loved how entertaining and informative it was,...and a bit funny....it would be awesome to see a demo of sites doing it. I'll be searching now,...
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Thanks David! We've been talking about a mock-up of dp in action for a next possible video, so good to see we're thinking in similar directions.
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  • kelli.com 2 years ago
    I have sent this to the other 3 people that I work with and am about to send it off to some others who I think would like it too.

    Our label is interested in connectedness, in how human beings connect online - I am interested in anything that makes it easier - am subscribing
  • Smashcut plus 2 years ago
    Awesome news, thanks! Look forward to checking out your label :)
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  • makemassair 1 year ago
    Sounds excellent. Video is nicely done too. :)
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  • Jason Barone 7 months ago
    More people should see this video, DataPortability is king. Also this video was produced very well, extremely engaging.
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  • Smashcut plus 7 months ago
    Thanks makemassair & Jason Barone :)
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  • Rishabh Verma 1 month ago
    Great video, i added it to my presentation i have to give at OSScamp!!
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