Data Portability Category

Merging and abstracting

In: Data Portability, New Economy, Online Services, Web 2.0

There is a major activity of online cloud services to Merge information that can easily extract the core info from a set of data. This is by far the most interesting result of the new economy by now.
You can see two of the most interesting examples here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data
http://www.wolframalpha.com/ (It actually extracts knowledge from data on [...]

I’m worried a little bit about this:

At first sight it seems like an innovative service that can give much more development power. But is this dangerous? Not allowing background processes and forcing everything to pass through the Apple Push Notification Server is something seems like Google strategy to me. Think about all your data flowing [...]

Everyone in the last months runs to open any code they have! Apparently there is something going on out there about “Sharing is Caring”. Even dataportability.org starts to have big fans and even Facebook is now a member. Maybe Eric Schmidt is right about the Cloud Computing and the new world with “Search, ads and [...]

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