One week to go til the DataSharingSummit
Spent lunch today with Joseph Smarr of Plaxo.
I’ve been impressed with the ‘turn-around’ at Plaxo - coming from where they originally positioned themselves to where they are right now. They’ve expanded pretty nicely onto the web, from being just an address book backup utility - back in 2003.
They released a ‘identity consolidator’ this week which in conjunction with their new social network Pulse and their existing technology - now offers a pretty nice suite of functionality.
But that all is trumped by their attitude, openness and leadership in the space - which lets just call ’social network portability’. Joseph and I put our brains together and came up with some principles, strategy and atitude which we’re gonna call ‘a manifesto’.
We’ll circulate it around next week and publish it in time for the DataSharingSummit - Sept. 7-8.
Other good news - Dare Obasanjo will also be there - so we’re getting a critical mass of players - representing the big boys, the user identity crowd and quite a few independent developers - as well.
We’re still looking for some sponsors to pay for lunch and a party - so if anyone is interested in buying good favors - please contact me.
Meanwhile I’ve been assembling various topics - and I’m creating topic pages so folks can ‘prep’ for what promises to be - a couple of interesting days.
We’ve scheduled the summit out in the middle of no where - so no one can dash off to work - and it’s on both a Friday and Saturday - to hit the maximum potential of availability.