Chris Saad, a co-founder of the Data Portability project has posted that tomorrow at OSCON a new Open Data Web Foundation will be announced by David Recordon and others.
The goal of the new foundation is to set out the actual data specifications, legal structures around data portability and in helping to evangelize set formats. Saad says that the initiative is different to the Data Portability project in that it is details oriented around specific technology and legal implementations rather than the broader evangelizing effort that has come out of Data Portability:
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Update: David Recordon has responded by saying that he isn’t at OSCON tomorrow.
Update 2: David Recordon has confirmed that an Open Web Foundation will be announced on Thursday morning.
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I won’t even be at OSCON tomorrow. http://daveman692.livejournal.com/338020.html
thats nice but i am afraid it is not going to last too long.. spies are everywhere!
I am announcing something, which I think is great, at OSCON on Thursday morning, though it isn’t the Open Data Foundation. In any case, the goal isn’t hype around it; rather a solid community focused on a common goal of supporting the Open Web.
I don’t know you. You seem pretty smart and your efforts quite laudable. But, you handled this situation like a total rookie (you better find out who the snitch is, if it isn’t Saad).
The problem with OpenID isn’t really a lack of standard (yet) but commitment from the big companies (full commitment).
Data portability will definitely lead to a new internet. According to Yihong Ding in his article: Data Portability: the next great frontier for the web, the web will become a collective network of user-managed mini-Webs, change from writer-oriented to reader-oriented and search will have to create new ways to rank duplicate web data.
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“…Saad says that the initiative is different to the Data Portability…” Yeah it’s different in that it doesn’t double as Mr. Saad’s personal promotion tool, and it’s open to other people’s input besides Mr. Saad.