Vote for 7 Portability panels at SXSW (including mine)

The SXSW 2010 PanelPicker is up. You can vote for seven data portability talks (including mine) to be in the Interactive conference’s program. Vote for Me! Ubiquity: The Future of Tech and What We Can Do Now (Elias Bizannes, DataPortability Project). Internet + cloud computing + information + everywhere anytime anyway = ? Welcome to our new world of Ubiquity. Run by one of the founders of the DataPortability Project, this session will look at the longer-term trends in tech and what we can do now to innovate and accelerate this change. Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Cloud Storage / Delivery, Economic Concerns, History of Technology, New Technology / Next Generation Data Rights 2.0: the World Beyond Privacy (Gil Silberman, peerFluence, Inc.). Web 2.0 is about the interpersonal: friends, actions, expression. Who owns this space? What are the rules and norms? We?ll review multi-party data rights like security, disclosure, portability, and informed consent, then gives some concrete advice on what interactive companies need to do to avoid trouble, and build trust. Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Community / Online Community, Social Networking Data Portability for Multiple Identities (Andrea Hill, Independent)Sometimes you don?t want them to know your name.. Roller derby skaters adopt alter egos. Those with serious health conditions may wish for discretion in their online activities. Who is responsible for ensuring an individual?s privacy, and what is lost by choosing not to share personal information? Cloud Storage / Delivery, Community / Online Community, Digital Distribution, Government and Technology, Social Issues Discovery Identity: API?s of the Semantic Web (Glenn Jones, Madgex) Without much conscious thought, most of us have built identities across the web. We fill in profiles, upload photos, videos, reviews and bookmarks. This session will explore the practical use of Social Graph API and YQL to build new types of user experience combining identity discovery and data portability. Back-End Programming / Databases, Front-End Programming, New Technology / Next Generation, Social Networking The 5W?s of Data Portability (Dave Morin, Facebook) With the advent of Web 2.0 came a new readable, writable Web. This user-driven Internet calls for control of identity, connections and usability. This panel will discuss how to leverage this new direction with identity providers such as Facebook Connect – including the successes, failures and learnings of the technologies. Accessibility / Web Standards, Case Study, Digital Distribution, New Technology / Next Generation, User Experience Let My Data Go! Portability Freedoms and Revolution (Phil Wolff, Skype Journal) Want the freedom to move from site to site, bringing your online information, experiences, and friends with you? Instead sites lock us up and evict us. We’ve had privacy policies for ten years. Where is our Portability Policy? Where is our portability? What can we do now? Community / Online Community, Government and Technology, Licensing / Fair Use / Copyright, New Technology / Next Generation, Social Issues Cloud Portability: A Standard for Using Cloud Resources (Alex Polvi, Cloudkick) This talk will discuss the on going effort to standardize the interfaces into the cloud. Currently every cloud provider has a unique, proprietary, API for consuming the services they offer. The cloud computing interoperability movement aims to provide standards that will overcome vendor lock-in, benefit the consumers, and allow the cloud ecosystem to grow transparently. Accessibility / Web Standards, Information Architecture, Open Source tags: dataportability, portability, dpp, austin, texas, sxsw, southbysouthwest, southbyCall me at +1-510-316-9773, Skype me, follow @skypejournal and @Phil Wolff.
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