A new IPTV show - theSocialWeb.TV
A few of the leading ‘identity/open/standards/open/portable‘ leaders of this biz launched a new IPTV show yesterday called ‘theSocialWeb.tv’.
In the premier episode they explain why they’re doing the show and bring us up to speed on the current crisis du jour “will Facebook allow their dynamic privacy controls to mesh in with the rest of us?”. Unfortunately right now - the only “us” is Google’s Friend Connect - so it’s not clear that Facebook’s resistance to Google is because they’re Google or for higher, more idealistic grounds.
I have a feeling it’s the later.
Joseph Smarr explains what transpired at last week’s SuperNova conference.
Joseph was on a panel with Dave Morin (Facebook) and Kevin Marks (Google) where they both respectfully agreed to disagree. Google’s position is that their Google’s Friend Connect ’service’ provides adequate levels of privacy and control - which is exactly why Facebook PULLED it’s support of Google Friend Connect - because they feel that Google’s level of controls are NOT adequate!
If you want to get it from the horses mouth - watch this show.
For those of you who only have :30 - not 21:00 - here’s the summary:
David Recordon doubts that there ever WILL be complete resolve because of the fundamental difference in the two approaches to the same problem.
As David Recordan explains:
“Google wants to organize the world’s information and they don’t have access to Facebook.”
But that’s not how Facebook sees the world. Recordon continues:
“Facebook wants to give their users the same level of control they have inside of Facebook and take it around the wide Internet. They want to share their info with a limited set of people. Or retract that access later.”
THIS is the difference between the two opposing forces.
It’s really forcing us all to deal with what ‘Our Data‘ is.
I have my data, you have your data, but once we put it out there - it becomes our data. Can someone retract their data from ‘the cloud’ at any time in the future? Every bit of every data? Is there a statue of limitations on your data - where after ‘this‘ long you lose control of it and can’t retract it?
I myself bet that Facebook will come up with something that’s doable, given the extreme scrutiny and status this ‘meme‘ has in our world today.
My company Broadband Mechanics has several large customers DEMANDING that we interface their systems into Facebook and enable any Facebook member to ‘move‘ their profile and social graph info into these new networks we’re building, or have built, for them. In some cases our customers want more than just profile info and social graph. They want us to move photos and conversations and app data and just about anything else they can find in Facebook.
I explain to our customers that it’s a two-way street - that whatever they want to bring in, they have to let out. We have to have a level playing field for datatportability and interoperability - to work.
My bet is that we’ll be seeing all sorts of public shared intelligent structured data services appear - which will triangulate, connect dots, act as an anchor, pivot, ricohet, route, redirect, reblog, tag, annotate and index - for all of us.
These free public servers have to prevent spam, but allow for fluid conversations, commenting, meetings, chats, person-to-person, few to many and every other kind of paradigm of communication we dream up.
Thinking about structured content, persistently stored, and always on and always about me - is the new black.
Meanwhile I just hope that this new IPTV show will:
- tag and annotate all of it’s content - so Google can spider it
- also fill in the meta-data fields - where appropriate
- distribute itself to the wind…. and attach track and ThreadsML to itself
- put itself into any and all of the archives, storage repositories and publishing end-points
- and make the show interactive - while recording it (ala Gillmor Gang)
This was a totally great show to watch!
John McCrea pointed out that “it seems that everyone is racing to out open each other, but each with their own flavor of proprietary control.”
Gee I wonder why?
David Recordon preaches the gospel and demands that ALL vendors need to provide ways to enable our users to move their data to wherever they wish. David points out that it probably won’t be ONE way to do all this and that’s why Broadband Mechanics will be supporting ALL the different ways to import/export personal profile data, social graphs and content.
First up - Plaxo and Microsoft’s Live Windows Contacts.
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Thanks John, Joseph and David - isn’t it amazing what you can do once you’re purchased by the world’s leading Cable company? It’s Plaxocastic!
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