Data portability
2018 will be the year that GDPR hits the fan. Jeni has lots of thoughts about what data portability could mean for individuals.
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Minimal Competence: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping. - Laughing Meme
Kellan outlines the bare minimum you should expect from any service that you are putting data into.
husk.org. chaff. Aggregation and the Edge.
Paul Mison shares his thoughts on moving towards a decentralised web of services rather than silos of data. "Now I'm wondering: is there a space for a piece of user-installable software, like Movable Type or Wordpress, that aggregates their data from sites across the web, and then presents it as a site? If there is, is it even possible to write it in a way that anyone who couldn't have written it themselves can even use it?"
Why you should have a Website
Steven Pemberton's talk from XTech 2008 in Dublin is becoming more relevant with each passing day as yet another service shuts down; Pownce, Ficlets, Stikkit...
Official Google Data APIs Blog: OAuth for Google Data APIs
All of Google's data APIs (Calendar, Blogger, Contacts, etc.) all now support OAuth. Excellent!