Comments on: You Don’t Own Your Data on Social Networks

By: Carsten Pötter

Carsten Pötter — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:03:16 +0000

No one has adopted it yet. It's still work in progress. Though I think it's a step in the right direction.

By: John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises)

John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:35:02 +0000

This has been an issue for years - I can't remember the year, but there was a big uproar when Yahoo! claimed ownership of photos uploaded to Yahoo! (this was pre-Flickr).

It's going to be a fight to convince any money-making corporation (or, in the cases of Twitter and FriendFeed, any potentially money-making corporation) to give up the rights to data ownership. Twitter, FriendFeed, et al don't want to be in the same position as the record companies.

Because record companies are running into technical issues maintaining ownership of artist recordings, they are moving toward 360 deals in which they will own everything else about the artist.

If Twitter and FriendFeed don't own the data, and therefore cannot sell it or control it, then the monetization argument for the services would be greatly reduced.

By: Carsten Pötter

Carsten Pötter — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:03:16 +0000

No one has adopted it yet. It's still work in progress. Though I think it's a step in the right direction.

By: John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises)

John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:35:02 +0000

By: jessestay

jessestay — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:49:24 +0000

Carsten, I like what they're doing, but who has adopted it yet? In
addition, as a brand I still have no control over how that data is
organized, nor the community that interacts with that data.

By: Carsten Pötter

Carsten Pötter — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:43:26 +0000

Reg. ownership of data: The Dataportability group has set up a EULA and ToS Task Force. It is targeting that question and tries to create something like Creative Commons for social networks and its users.
http://wiki.dataportability.org/pages/viewpage….

By: jessestay

jessestay — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:19:30 +0000

Dirk, is it open source? How open are the connections? Can I follow
someone across Noserub instances via an open protocol like OMB?

By: Dirk Olbertz

Dirk Olbertz — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:15:34 +0000

I would like to point yourself to http://noserub.com which is an open social network that was designed from the ground up to give the user full control over the data - including exporting its data and importing it to another NoseRub instance.

We recently also added support for identi.ca, so we are a full member of that community.

And NoseRub is available in source code and should run on any LAMP system. All just to tell you: "You can own Your Own Data on Social Networks"