Persona Editor Google Tech Talk
I gave a TechTalk at Google last week. This is my going away present to Silicon Valley.
Anyone can watch this recording and design a tool to this spec. Go for it.
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building the open web one bit at a time
1) Isn’t this persona like power.com whose problem is that the various sources of data lock them out?
The business model stuff is very helpful.
My main question:
2) Can you please explain the business model reasons …. the advantages and disadvantages for why a company like a Facebook or a new growing social networking startup would make their data open like that? How / why would a new, exploding social network implement your ideas for better business traction?
3) Also, do the users need to like Oauth each individual account they have into the system?
4) Do you think the personas themselves also need to be portable so that the Persona editor also has an API?
Thank you! Interesting as always.
Yuh gotta reply to comments, Marc. Just gotta.
Good news Marc! BuddyPress’ main developer (Andy Peatling) is talking like he wants to build stuff like what you have been talking about (profile data from multiple BuddyPress sites being merged together for the one user) into the core code for future releases ( in this podcast http://buddypress.org/blog/news/talking-buddypress-on-wordpress-weekly/ ) …and with Wordpress and their free / open culture and possibly their distribution behind him…if BuddyPress becomes very popular, I think it’s the best chance I can think of for seeing your ideas come to fruition. Just a tip…not sure if it helps. Thanks!