Archive for the “Data Portability” category
Gesundheitssystem Quo Vadis
by Christian Scholz on August 3, 2009
After spending 1 week in hospital because of a bad appendicites, I am reflecting now a bit about our healthcare system, data silos and how it could eventually become better in 50 year’s time. For more information also read this (…)
Are Facebook vanity URLs paving the way for OpenID?
by Christian Scholz on June 9, 2009
Vanity URLs are a strange thing to have, at least if you have so many of them. You have one on Twitter, on MySpace, on YouTube etc. and soon also on Facebook, starting on saturday. They are going to be (…)
Come to the DataPortability Plenary Meeting for Q1 on tuesday!
by Christian Scholz on March 29, 2009
On tuesday the DataPortability Project will host it’s plenary meeting for Q1 2009. Here is our official announcement: All members of the plenary are invited to this meeting, where the Steering Group can explain how we are tracking against the (…)
Mein DataPortability TOS&EULA Taskforce-Vortrag vom Barcamp Ruhr 2
by Christian Scholz on March 29, 2009
This are the slides from my talk about the TOS&EULA Taskforce of the DataPortability Project. These are in german from the Barcamp Ruhr II and maybe someday I will also do an english version. Dies sind meine Slides vom Barcamp (…)
Nach dem Facebook-Skandal: Wem gehören unsere Daten?
by Christian Scholz on February 19, 2009
Now that Facebook changes their TOS back to the old version it’s time to think about how this problem with “ownership” can actually be solved. This is what I am trying to think about here. English thoughts about this will (…)
Nicht nur Facebook ist böse böse…
by Christian Scholz on February 16, 2009
More thoughts on the Facebook TOS issue and a check at Youtube who also own your videos but only as long as you store them there. The latter was removed in the FB TOS. Nun macht es so langsam die (…)
Who owns your data? Facebook does of course. And now forever!
by Christian Scholz on February 16, 2009
As consumerist noticed, Facebook changed their TOS to make it even more worse as it even was. Back then it said: You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (…)
Linden Lab asks: Is your password secure? I ask: Do you support OpenID?
by Christian Scholz on January 17, 2009
On the Second Life blog you can read the question “Is your password secure” followed by some hints on how to make a good password choice, to not use the same password everywhere and so on. But the real question (…)
It’s time to fight the password anti-pattern!
by Christian Scholz on January 6, 2009
As Elias points out in this post over at the DataPortability Project’s Blog, it’s time to fight the password anti-pattern! Look at twitter and their recent problems with hacked accounts and you know why. And one way to do it (…)
25C3: Privacy in the Semantic Web
by Christian Scholz on December 29, 2008
“Social Networks based on XMPP”, by Jan Torben Heuer, Institute of Geoinformatic, University of Münster. Current ideas and work based on diploma thesis, opening the project for non-academic users and wants to discuss approach with interested people. Quick poll in (…)