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DataPortability Los Angeles Meetup |
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Monday, 23 June 2008, 7pm-9pm Pacific |
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Found Gallery, 1903 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, California |
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Join us this Monday, June 23, at Found Gallery in Los Angeles, for the 3rd monthly Los Angeles DartPortability Meetup. Co-hosted by Brady Brim-DeForest and Michael Lambie.
Things kick off at 7pm. Read the [full details|http://wiki....
The May DataPortability Project Report has been published. It is a couple days late since I was working on the new format and I have been on the road- but hopefully you will like the new format and we can continuously build on these monthly reports that serve not only active DataPortability Project members but also users, vendors and developers who want to be kept informed on the progress of the project....
Last changed Jun 10, 2008 02:58 by Phil Wolff
Hey, everyone else is blogging about the new iPhone this week.
In fact, the Apple Push Notification Service coming in Fall 2008 seems to work like half of a synchronization utility: from third party servers through an Apple server to phones. Data portabliity really calls for a sync architecture to be both bidirectional (to enable backup, for instance) and p2p (in this case that's phone to phone). Sync services help keep identity and other onlife data consistent across sites....
Last changed May 23, 2008 13:10 by Brady Brim-DeForest
Labels: news
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DataPortability Los Angeles Meetup |
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Saturday, 24 May 2008, 7pm-10pm Pacific |
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Found Gallery, 1903 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, California |
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Upcoming page |
Join us this Saturday, May 24, at Found Gallery in Los Angeles, for the 2nd monthly Los Angeles DartPortability Meetup.
Things kick off at 7pm. Read the [full details|http://wiki.dataportability....
One problem we usually have in the Technical Action Group (TAG) is how to find consensus on certain points. In order to solve this the following process is proposed:
Process - How to find consensus
This announcement follows this process. So please discuss this proposal as defined inside it until May 24th 12PM GMT.
The process tries to solve the following problems:
- discussion is only happening between 2-3 participants in the TAG usually....
Last changed May 16, 2008 16:08 by Mary Trigiani
Here's what they're saying about data portability and this project on other blogs and in traditional media. |
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The Semantic Puzzle. [Data Availability, Data Portability and Everyone Else on the Data Hippie Bandwagon.|http://blog.semantic-web.at/?p=128] By Jana Herwig. May 15 2008. |
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Affinitive's Social Media Playground. _[Data Portability Gets a Boost from Social Networks|http://www.socialmediaplayground.... |
Last changed May 07, 2008 23:58 by Mary Trigiani
Click hereto read the DataPortability Project's monthly report for April 2008.
Last changed May 09, 2008 00:34 by Brady Brim-DeForest
Labels: news, evangelism, calendar, message
Our message of the month is that DataPortability.org has direction. Three, actually.
- Doing the Right Thing: the challenge of morals, ethics, and laws
- Supporting the Social Software Stack
- Technology Evangelism and Consumer Marketing
DataPortability.org volunteers embrace these challenges with small projects. Read more about the DataPortability.org direction talking points on our monthly message calendar....
The DataPortability DIY Club light up the first monthly project for May: "rel=me"
Join the fun!
Last changed Apr 27, 2008 15:49 by Phil Wolff
Labels: news, evangelism, coverage, fastcompany, scoble

The topic is the Internet's utter lack of usability in Robert Scoble's May 2008 FastCompany column, How to Fix the Web: The online world isn't always user-friendly. But it easily could be.
The problem:
"For all the cool things we can do,...
I'm looking at Instructables.com as one of the delivery and community deliverables of DIYDP.
We'll create a group for DIY Data Portability.
For each monthly project, five instructables go into the group:
- What is this months' project?...
Last changed Apr 24, 2008 10:12 by Phil Wolff
Labels: logo, labels, news

The labels for the Web 2.0 Expo arrive. Photo by Daniela.
Last changed Apr 23, 2008 10:59 by J. Trent Adams
Last changed Apr 22, 2008 12:55 by Brady Brim-DeForest
Labels: news
DataPortability Logo Contest ended Friday night.

Many votes cast.
No hanging chads.
Results to be announced at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday or Wednesday. Thanks for voting!
The Contest:
On February 22, 2008, the DataPortability Project launched a contest to find a new logo. Over the following month, we received over 400 submissions from the community. After three grueling weeks, working with our panel of expert judges, we paired down the entries to 15 finalists. Out of these finalists, we are asking you, the community,...
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