Chris Sparshott » intelligence

Eliminate sea monsters – global intelligence

Chris Sparshott — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:15:48 +0000

The idea that we can bring together all the data and intelligence in the world and apply intelligence to problems isn’t a new one but maybe we are getting closer to actually being able to do it.

OpenSocial

Chris Sparshott — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:29:00 +0000

I am presenting at the Technical Leadership Exchange (TLE) in Sydney in August. I have chosen to talk about Profile 2.0. This is really about a users profile being the common denominator of Web 2.0 because all things seem to eventually get down to who are you, do I know you, do I trust you?

The industry needs an open standards solution that addresses identity. From this point we can then deal with the problems of ownership of data and portability of data.

As part of my research which I am doing today I have been looking at dataportability, OpenID and OpenSocial. I wanted to share with you the YouTube video from the launch of OpenSocial. It takes you through a few examples of where OpenSocial has been used. Essentially OpenSocial is SOA for Social Networks. It provides a common framework and APIs that allow developers to write code once and use multiple times. The pre-req is that the social network that you wish to write an application for supports OpenSocial. Initial assessment would indicate that all the big players such as Google, Facebook, myspace, Ning, LinkedIn etc support it so it may well become the standard.

Enjoy the Video, its long!

LinkedIn and old Contacts

Chris Sparshott — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:45:00 +0000

So I have never been a user of LinkedIn. up until last week. I think that LinkedIn is a way of dealing with business contacts so I am trawling through all my business cards from the last year or so and trying to connect to them in LinkedIn. I have no idea if I will actually get any benefit from this but I am going to give it a try, updates to follow.

I also sent out a question to the twitter folk to see if they have any ideas on this being a good or bad thing.

Any thought appreciated.