The personal blog of Chris Saad, “Co-Founder of APML.org, DataPortability.org, Co-Author of Synapticweb.org. Currently VP Strategy @ Echo”
#dataportability
Magic Signatures
“This document defines a lightweight, robust mechanism for digitally signing nearly arbitrary messages, along with a basic public key infrastructure for discovering the signing keys.”
Atom Activity Extensions
“This document presents an extension that allows activities on social objects to be expressed within the Atom Syndication Format.”
Atom Media Extensions
“This document presents an extension to the Atom Syndication Format that defines how media objects such as photos and videos might be represented in Atom and allows additional metadata to be published about linked media representations.”
Portable Contacts 1.0 Draft C
“The Portable Contacts specification is designed to make it easier for developers to give their users a secure way to access the address books and friends lists they have built up all over the web.”
Best Practice for Site Developers
Best Practice for Site Developers
“This page holds ideas for people who maintain or build websites on things they can do now to support Data Portability.”
Gnip: Making data portability suck less.
Gnip: Making data portability suck less.
Really interesting sounding project where they’re aiming to become like a ping-o-matic for social data.