April 3, 2013
by ianforrester
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The guardian has a article titled What next for the quantified self… The quantified self movement – the idea that tracking metrics about yourself can lead to self-improvement – appears to be gathering steam. With products such as the FitBit … Continue reading
February 5, 2013
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I said on Techgrumps 66 recently that I found it very strange that there was no Twitter dump import tools/services? Now I have my twitter data/dump, I want to host it myself which is pretty easy because there is JSON … Continue reading
January 20, 2013
by ianforrester
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Its great looking through my Twitter archive/dump but its frustrating that I can only read half of the conversation. Funny looking back at this tweet as it was less than a week before I had my brush with death… 6 … Continue reading
January 20, 2013
by ianforrester
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Finally got the ability to download my tweets… Over 6 years of tweets in 6.8 meg of files. It comes in a zip file not a tar file which is interesting because Facebook uses Tars for its data dumps. Structures … Continue reading
July 21, 2012
by ianforrester
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There is something which has been in the back of my mind for ages. Its the concept of distributed and dating. It drives me crazy to see how closed the online dating world is and even if one breaks the … Continue reading
December 16, 2011
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I moved away from lets mix years ago even before they did the dirty on the Pacemaker with Pioneer, although its still a shame to see its going… It is with great regret that Let’s Mix today announces that the Letmix.com … Continue reading
November 12, 2010
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Yeah right… Like thats going to happen (just like dating data portability) I just switched from Tesco.com to Sainsburys because for some reason Tesco’s site fails to show on my internet connection. (I tried multiple browsers on multiple machines and … Continue reading
October 9, 2010
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I have to give Facebook some credit, this week they launched the ability to dump your data out of facebook. First, we’ve built an easy way to quickly download to your computer everything you’ve ever posted on Facebook and all … Continue reading
July 20, 2010
by ianforrester
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From OnlineDatingPost Speaking of sharing, Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers. Data portability isn’t something discussed in the dating industry very often in public. Dating sites sell profiles up and down the river every day, but that’s … Continue reading
May 8, 2008
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So i read Myspace have joined the Dataportability group, but then I spotted via Techmeme that they were also launching Data availability? There seems to be little detail about the whole thing now, but it looks closely related to the … Continue reading
February 29, 2008
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| View | Upload your own This is the slides I used for the Educational Jisc event. The event went really well and although there are over 80 slides, I managed to wiz through them in about 30mins, leaving plenty … Continue reading
February 22, 2008
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DataPortability was sent a Cease and Desist letter regarding the DataPortability logo and its alleged similarity to the Fedora logo? I personally I think their different enough but hey if the logo must change, its easily done and makes little … Continue reading
February 17, 2008
by ianforrester
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So it started off about the facebook applications on any site and their global javascript library. But before long Kevin Rose is informing Alex about the advantages of this move for Facebook and some of its users. Kevin then points … Continue reading
January 21, 2008
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DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut Media on Vimeo. CREDITS: Written, designed and edited by Michael Pick, smashcut-media.com Music – “Bongo Avenger” – Eric & Ryan Kilkenny: CC Attrib. Non Commercial Hands photo: Scol22 – Stock.xchng Additional images: … Continue reading
January 8, 2008
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Forget Open social, this is huge! This a huge win for interoperability, portability and fair use. Chris told me a while ago but promised to say nothing till now. It also shows how much influence characters like scoble have, but … Continue reading