Visionary 101
Posted on Thursday, March 2, 2006
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The word visionary gets thrown around too easily in the computer industry, but Marc Canter gives a great demonstration in this post of how a true visionary behaves. He clearly explains how all the social websites need to open themselves up, so their users can truly control their own data. Sure he has horses in this race, but his vision makes the world better for users of everyone's products and even for his competitors. I've known Marc for over 20 years, and he keeps getting better. He has done a brilliant job of transforming himself from the merry prankster of video software to one of the great thinkers of Web 2.0. I can't count the number of times people have told me that he is a mensch. I agree. Gee, I'm getting a little verklempt here. You can listen to more of Marc's ideas on this podcast.
A first step in moving our identity online
Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005
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Marc Canter's blog has reminded me that I needed to view Dick Hardt's identity presentation. I've been seeing links to it for months, but I just got around to watching it. It does a great job of summarizing the issues, but also makes it clear how far we are from a solution.
Structured Blogging is a key step toward a defacto SAPI
Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2005
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At Syndicate today Marc Canter announced a set of XML data standards for encoding various types of microcontent, such as movie reviews, that he is calling Structured Blogging. This is clearly needed for the growth of features around RSS and the standardization of the XML returned by a SAPI.
