Category Archives: Data Portability

The Real Killer App for Personal Clouds

Posted on 2/20/2013 by Drummond Reed

I’ve been working for several years now on building infrastructure for personal clouds (that’s the entire goal of the Respect Network based on the Respect Trust Framework). I’ve helped design, discuss, and debate dozens of powerful new apps for personal clouds (see several that were … Continue reading →

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It’s This Simple: Vote for Kaliya on August 15

Posted on 8/7/2012 by Drummond Reed

You may never have heard of NSTIC (the U.S. National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace) or the personal data ecosystem (but then, you probably wouldn’t be reading this blog). But it matters not — if you care at all about the … Continue reading →

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Craig Burton Divines the Bovine

Posted on 5/26/2011 by Drummond Reed

There are few people I have met in my career who can distill complex topics down to their very essence. Craig Burton is one of them. His Burton Ubiquity Matrix, about which he gave a great session at the last … Continue reading →

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Connect.Me

Posted on 3/9/2011 by Drummond Reed

The Incredible Internet Irony Machine strikes again. The stealth startup that’s been my singular focus since stepping down as Executive Director of Open Identity Exchange and the Information Card Foundation last fall, called Respect Network, took one tiny peek above … Continue reading →

Posted in Connect.Me, Data Portability, Dataweb, Identity Rights Agreements, Open Identity Exchange, Personal Cloud, Personal Data Ecosystem, Personal Data Server, Personal Data Service, Personal Data Store, Privacy, Reputation, Social CRM, Social Web, VRM | 16 Comments

True Data Portability

Posted on 1/12/2011 by Drummond Reed

I’ve been on the board of Dataportability.org since its founding three years ago. The concept made quite a splash when it was first announced, but I knew that after the hype wore off would come all the hard work of … Continue reading →

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Singular Focus in 2011

Posted on 1/5/2011 by Drummond Reed

I made only one New Year’s resolution this year: to maintain the singular focus necessary to succeed with a startup. There’s no need to pontificate on that subject of focus when it comes to startups — it’s an industry cliche … Continue reading →

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Phil Windley on XDI

Posted on 8/5/2010 by Drummond Reed

Phil Windley, co-founder and CTO of Kynetx (among the many hats he wears), wrote his own rules language, KRL, to “program the Web”. So when Phil writes the following about XDI after he and his team did a two-day deep … Continue reading →

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Portability Policies and Personal Data Stores

Posted on 6/29/2010 by Drummond Reed

My primary involvement as a member of the board of the Data Portability Project has been input about XDI as an open standard for portable data. But I’ve always been very enthusiastic about DP’s work on Portability Policies. The DP … Continue reading →

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The PDX is Coming

Posted on 4/29/2010 by Drummond Reed

Remember that year-end blog post about how personal data stores (PDS) are closer than they may appear? Now read Phil Windley’s wonderful summary of why it makes so much sense to create a PDX (not really an acronym for “personal … Continue reading →

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Joe Andrieu Cuts the Gordian Data Ownership Knot

Posted on 1/21/2010 by Drummond Reed

Joe Andrieu has a wonderful way of cutting the Gordian knot on complex socio-technical topics, with clear prose, compelling arguments, and clever illustrations that explain why you should look at something decidedly differently. Now he wields that knife on the … Continue reading →

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Your Own Personal Piece of the Cloud

Posted on 1/17/2010 by Drummond Reed

There’s an excellent thread going on among the MyDex team about the accelerating shift towards cloud computing and what this means for the individual. I strongly recommended to them Nicolas Carr’s The Big Switch for a discussion of this very … Continue reading →

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Personal Data Stores – The Time is Coming

Posted on 12/28/2009 by Drummond Reed

This entire fall has been intense with work, thus the paucity of posts here. The holidays brings a welcome respite and a chance to catch up with a few key mental threads. One of them is the growing awareness of … Continue reading →

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The Permissioned Web: Open Does Not Mean Public Domain

Posted on 5/13/2009 by Drummond Reed

At the Glue Conference this week I’m enjoying a great set of speakers lined up by Eric Norlin on the topic of how everything in the networked universe gets glued together using Web 2.0 tools and beyond. (The talk Mitch … Continue reading →

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Eve Finds Another Intersection

Posted on 9/4/2008 by Drummond Reed

I’m going to start referring to her as the Venn Queen. Eve Maler has done another Venn diagram, this time to show the relationship of whole areas of the “user-centric” sphere of activities. Going into Digital ID World next week, … Continue reading →

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Relationship Cards (R-Cards)

Posted on 7/1/2008 by Drummond Reed

So much for the naive thought that I’ have time at the Burton Catalyst conference last week to finally blog about two subjects near and dear to my heart that I knew would be covered at the conference. It backfired … Continue reading →

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Data Portability: An Idea Made to Stick

Posted on 5/12/2008 by Drummond Reed

Chris Messina has a post worth reading about the whole subject of Data Portability. Though it is a complex new topic that demands a longer and more thoughtful post, the one point he and Chris Saad agree on is that … Continue reading →

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