Comments on: Data Portability and the File System http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/25/data-portability/ Rebooting the workforce Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:40:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Gmail gains offline support and Hotmail adds…um, POP3?? « http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/25/data-portability/#comment-311139 WebWorkerDaily » Archive Gmail gains offline support and Hotmail adds…um, POP3?? « Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:56:06 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2170#comment-311139 [...] anything illustrates why data portability is important in web-based services (and for web workers), it’s this reality; Microsoft passed an eleven year sentence of [...] [...] anything illustrates why data portability is important in web-based services (and for web workers), it’s this reality; Microsoft passed an eleven year sentence of [...]

]]> By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive AOL Adds Support for Yahoo! Mail « http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/25/data-portability/#comment-307759 WebWorkerDaily » Archive AOL Adds Support for Yahoo! Mail « Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:00:16 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2170#comment-307759 [...] Data portability is a subject I’ve written about many times here at Web Worker Daily, notably with regard to the portability of email data trapped within services such as Hotmail, Google Apps and Outlook…though fortunately (as these links illustrate) each of those services has a third-party ‘jailbreaking option’ to liberate your data. [...] [...] Data portability is a subject I’ve written about many times here at Web Worker Daily, notably with regard to the portability of email data trapped within services such as Hotmail, Google Apps and Outlook…though fortunately (as these links illustrate) each of those services has a third-party ‘jailbreaking option’ to liberate your data. [...]

]]> By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Zoho Mail Goes Offline & Mobile « http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/25/data-portability/#comment-306534 WebWorkerDaily » Archive Zoho Mail Goes Offline & Mobile « Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:17:41 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2170#comment-306534 [...] an industry, we should be thinking more responsibly about data portability through standards…a complex endeavor, but in the longer term much more viable and stable than the collection [...] [...] an industry, we should be thinking more responsibly about data portability through standards…a complex endeavor, but in the longer term much more viable and stable than the collection [...]

]]> By: Open Ideas Sharing » File system based data portability http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/25/data-portability/#comment-295278 Open Ideas Sharing » File system based data portability Wed, 21 May 2008 21:44:09 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2170#comment-295278 [...] http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/25/data-portability/ [...] [...] http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/25/data-portability/ [...]

]]> By: Dean Landolt http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/25/data-portability/#comment-294195 Dean Landolt Fri, 02 May 2008 13:37:54 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2170#comment-294195 I'm trying to kick off a Python project -- <a href="http://code.google.com/p/socialfs/" rel="nofollow">SocialFS</a> -- that will attempt to address a lot of these issues by providing a generic data store and the facilities to hook into web app APIs or be used as a normal file system (with some pretty kick ass properties). I've started writing out my thoughts about how it all would fit together here... If you're into the whole Open Web idea, I'd love some guidance. And if you have some Python and/or FUSE chops, I'd love some help... I’m trying to kick off a Python project — SocialFS — that will attempt to address a lot of these issues by providing a generic data store and the facilities to hook into web app APIs or be used as a normal file system (with some pretty kick ass properties). I’ve started writing out my thoughts about how it all would fit together here…

If you’re into the whole Open Web idea, I’d love some guidance. And if you have some Python and/or FUSE chops, I’d love some help…

]]> By: Dean Landolt » Blog Archive » Imagine SocialFS… http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/25/data-portability/#comment-294193 Dean Landolt » Blog Archive » Imagine SocialFS… Fri, 02 May 2008 13:23:08 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2170#comment-294193 [...] I’ve been kicking around the idea of an web-app file system for quite some time, but I haven’t been able to really find the time to work up a head of steam on any implementation details. Now that I’m revisiting the idea for a graduate class, I keep finding little pieces of this vision I’ve had slowly creeping out, like this recent WWD article — Data Portability and the File System. [...] [...] I’ve been kicking around the idea of an web-app file system for quite some time, but I haven’t been able to really find the time to work up a head of steam on any implementation details. Now that I’m revisiting the idea for a graduate class, I keep finding little pieces of this vision I’ve had slowly creeping out, like this recent WWD article — Data Portability and the File System. [...]

]]> By: nortypig » Blog Archive » Data Portability and the File System http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/25/data-portability/#comment-293311 nortypig » Blog Archive » Data Portability and the File System Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:27:09 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2170#comment-293311 [...] Ali is discussing data portability in his article on Web Worker Daily - Data Portability and the File System - and the importance of [...] [...] Ali is discussing data portability in his article on Web Worker Daily – Data Portability and the File System – and the importance of [...]

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