Joseph Smarr, Tariq Krim and myself did a workshop on ‘Open Data’ today at the Web 2.0 Summit.

It was well attended given the 8:30 in the morning slot. This was the fourth year in a row that I did this sort of panel at Web 2.0. Brian Dear was there - and reminded me that he was on the first such panel - when we were extrapolating what a shared databases of events would work. That vision turns out to be very similar to what Brad and David suggest in their ‘open social graph’ manifesto.

The main gist of the workshop was to go over the different ways that platform consider themselves ‘open’ nowadays and discuss the tradeoffs and realities of supporting proprietary/vendor specific standards and protocols - versus - supporting open standards.

This subtle difference in approach is important for a vendor like Broadband Mechanics because we want to BOTH provide our customer’s users the most compelling experience possible - and thereby support Flickr and Facebook’s APIs, while at the same time - we want to DO THE RIGHT THING and help make open standards possible

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