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  Tangler 2 Go

  Tangler has just become even more yummy by coming to you. No need to send users to Tangler.com for a live discussion. Host them right in your own site or blog.

  Posted 06 Feb 08

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  What should Phil do for his 40th birthday?

  It's my 40th this year and I want to do something special because, 40 years on, life is looking good. I am blessed with a wondeful family, great pals and an exciting career. How should I celebrate?

  Big party?

  Exclusive dinner?

  Special mates to special place?
   

  Posted 14 Jan 08

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  Living Dataportability or Walking the Walk

  I'm going to use this spot to record the actions I am taking in my dataportability world.

  • Added OpenID to philmorle.com
  • Added XFN to blogroll on philmorle.com (now need to add links!)
  • TODO: Explore Google Social Graph API
  • TODO: Tangler (OpenID/XFN/Microformat imports)

   

  Posted 03 Feb 08

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  Rules for Media Companies

  Kevin Kelly’s Rules for Media Companies

  February 3rd, 2008

  

  Kevin Kelly has just written  some terrific rules for media companies to apply as they evolve their business models to the Internet: Better than Free.

  The Internet is a copy machine, founded on principles of super-distribution. As Kelly says:

  “Even a dog knows you can’t erase something once its flowed on the internet.”

  Building a business model around scarcity and crontrol is plainly not going to work (DRM) in this new market-place. Kelly brings his big-brain, long-thought, impossible-to-express-in-a-twitter process to bear to suggest 8 generatives better than free.

  • Immediacy
  • Personalization
  • Interpretation
  • Authenticity
  • Accessibility
  • Embodiment
  • Patronage
  • Findability

  If you work in media, this is your new framework.
  Someone else that profoundly gets it is Gerd Leonhard, who says it’s no longer about ‘control’. Now we must think about ‘attention’.

  Do media companies get this yet?

  Posted 03 Feb 08

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  Dataportability: Defined

  Check out this awesome video from Smashcut Media: http://www.vimeo.com/610179

  Posted 15 Jan 08

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  Wish Humans could fly

  Hey Alex - you just violated my brand new forum! But I wish I could fly too...
  

  Posted 04 Jan 08

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  What Happens When I Feel Ownership of a Forum

  I'm not saying anything until I have my forum design in order... be patient children.
  

  Posted 05 Jan 08

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  Your Email Address is My Data

  When Scoble tried to export his friend's email addresses from Facebook  (notice I didn't say 'ran a script to scrape other people's personal data') wasn't he just trying to organise his address book? (See here also.)

  I acually don't quite agree with my title here. I just wanted to get your attention. My email address is my data not yours, but... if I approve you to be my friend on Facebook, I am giving you a personal. non-exclusive license to use that email address to contact me. You can move it to your phone, invite me to be your friend on Myspace, add it to your Exchange address book. Yes, you can even export it from Facebook. As part of our un-written, fair use contract you will not abuse that email address by using it as your own, publishing it to the web or otherwise making it available to spammers but non of that happens if you export it from Facebook.

  Posted 06 Jan 08