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Open Web Foundation Officially Launches

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:30:04 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
This morning at that OSCON conference David Recordon of Six Apart will announce on stage the formation of the Open Web Foundation. The new foundation is about providing a home for the development and ratification of web-related standards efforts. The foundation will be focused on developing the technical specifications of protocols used for communication and […]

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NewsGator Adds Persistent APML

Thu, 22 May 2008 08:42:06 +0000

Source:Mashable!
Remember APML? All you real good Mashable readers will remember one of my first major articles here at the blog, where I outlined my journey towards understanding a new standard set to bring together and organize attention data for Internet users:
The concept of APML is that it allows you to share your “attention profile” data […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “NewsGator Adds Persistent APML”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/21/newsgator-apml/” });

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Digg Moves to Adopt DataPortability Standards

Fri, 02 May 2008 00:32:01 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
A Federal Court found today that AOL, Real Networks and Yahoo owe $100million to songwriters and composers as back payment for streaming music online.
The court ruled on a request from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers to establish reasonable compensation for the playing of their works. Notably ASCAP represents writers and composers and […]Source:TechCrunch
The DataPortability Project has gained another adherent in Digg, which announced on its blog today that it has implemented three under-the-hood enhancements.
These include implementation and improved support for XFN and hCard, which help other sites access information about your friends on Digg. The site has also added RDF to make its pages more semantic […]

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Strike Two: DataPortability Workgroup Logo Challenged, Again

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:30:04 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
The DataPortability Workgroup founded in November 2007, is aiming to develop best practices towards letting users move, share, and control their identity, photos, videos and all other forms of personal data stored in social networks and other web services. The young organization now faces its second legal challenge to, of all things, its choice […]

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And We Have A New DataPortability Logo

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:36:33 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Sometime today, StumbleUpon will register its five millionth user. (At the time of this writing, it is at 4,994,826 registered users). That number is kind of meaningless because it counts anyone who has ever registered for the Website-rating and discovery service, and who may no longer use it. StumbleUpon, which is […]Source:TechCrunch
We’ve been testing a new comments feature on the TechCrunch blogs over the last few days - video comments, powered by Seesmic (a company I invested in). The feature is delivered via a Wordpress plugin (details here and an overview video is here).
You’ll see the link to leave a video comment at the end […]Source:TechCrunch
After being threatened by Red Hat because its original suitcase logo was too close to theirs, the DataPortability workgroup decided to hold a contest for a new logo, which anyone could vote on. Now the logo contest is over, and the winning design is shown at right. Congratulations to Alex Pankratov, who submitted […]

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DataPortability Launches New Logo Contest

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:34:56 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
As startups become cheaper to launch, more and more venture capitalists are finding themselves left out in the cold. Either angel investors are beating them to the punch in funding new startups, or Google buys them before any VC even gets to hear the company’s pitch.
In fact, angels invested $26 billion in […]Source:TechCrunch
Two more startups have released services for storing, syncing, and sharing files in the cloud over the past week…but still no sign of Google’s GDrive.
Syncplicity launches today with the same value propositions as SugarSync, which we reviewed in March. Syncplicity can be used not only to automatically back up files from anywhere on your computer […]Source:TechCrunch
The fledgling DataPortability workgroup, led by Chris Saad, had a bit of a panic attack in February when they received a Cease & Desist letter from RedHat over their alleged use of the Fedora logo.
Instead of fighting it in court, the workgroup decided to ditch the old logo and hold a new logo contest instead. […]

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FriendFeed, The Centralized Me, and Data Portability

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:30:04 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
It’s definitely FriendFeed month in Silicon Valley. The company, founded by ex-Googlers, let you aggregate information and activity streams from all of the various services that you use on the internet - Flickr photos, YouTube videos, blog posts, delicious bookmarks, Twitter messages, and other stuff (33 services total to date). Your friends subscribe you your […]

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