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Re: Data portability, privacy and personal data stores

Phillip Hofmeyr — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:28:14 -0000

I am looking forward to the time when these 'system/platform' issues are resolved and we can move onto the more exciting stuff - in Chris Saad's words: "...then it's a competition to see which vendors can add the most value to the free flow of data"

david - looking forward to seeing how evernote will contribute to this - will email you shortly.

Re: Data portability, privacy and personal data stores

David Nagy — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:43:00 -0000

My company has developed a fast-growing personal data store to which we are considering added controlled access features (and others) like those discussed above. It's called Evernote and has been in invitation-only beta since late February: www.evernote.com. If anyone interested in "Data portability, privacy and personal data stores" wants to try it out and give me feedback on features, send an email request with the subject "personal data store" to feedback@evernote.com and I'll send you an invitation.

Re: Data portability, privacy and personal data stores

nic — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:18:21 -0000

Good point Dave. For the model to work they would have to copy the data and then synch up periodically, or something similar.

Re: Data portability, privacy and personal data stores

Dave Brown — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:26:13 -0000

Nic, In your "what I listen to" example I think lastfm and others need to have a copy of your data so that they can do clever stuff like data mining comparisons between you and others to find more recommendations for you - it wouldn't work if they had to retrieve all the data every time from each individual's datastore. If you are a site manipulating this data or doing some sort of transaction then it will get very complicated if you don't store the personal data but rely on an external data store (eg. your shipping address can change over time but the merchant needs to know what was shipped where in case of issues).