Comments on: My vision for data portability utopia http://www.judisohn.com/2008/02/my_vision_for_data_portability_utopia/ It's a reason, not an excuse Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:38:22 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike Reynolds http://www.judisohn.com/2008/02/my_vision_for_data_portability_utopia/comment-page-1/#comment-18687 Mike Reynolds Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:08:36 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2008/02/my_vision_for_data_portability_utopia/#comment-18687 Hi Judi, I'm a co-founder of DataPortability.org and wanted to say thanks for your post. I completely agree that DataPortability is about much more than social networking profiles. If you look at Microsoft's point of view (they are a member of DataPortability.org), you can see that their viewpoint is similar to yours. Here are some relevant links: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_joining_dataportabil.php http://www.centernetworks.com/microsoft-conference-call-notes http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=e2f019f6-51bb-4349-834c-83e57b004e4b http://www.dataportability.org/ What you point out above are some key use cases for what we might want to call "portable collaboration" since "interoperability" may not be specific enough. This is a problem many of us have faced, especially if you co-workers and partners don't work right next to you. I'm sure both Microsoft, Google and others are well aware of this and are investing resources into improving the situation. Your article helps add context to their work. Cheers, Mike Hi Judi,

I’m a co-founder of DataPortability.org and wanted to say thanks for your post. I completely agree that DataPortability is about much more than social networking profiles.

If you look at Microsoft’s point of view (they are a member of DataPortability.org), you can see that their viewpoint is similar to yours. Here are some relevant links:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_joining_dataportabil.php

http://www.centernetworks.com/microsoft-conference-call-notes

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=e2f019f6-51bb-4349-834c-83e57b004e4b

http://www.dataportability.org/

What you point out above are some key use cases for what we might want to call “portable collaboration” since “interoperability” may not be specific enough. This is a problem many of us have faced, especially if you co-workers and partners don’t work right next to you. I’m sure both Microsoft, Google and others are well aware of this and are investing resources into improving the situation.

Your article helps add context to their work.

Cheers,
Mike

]]> By: Michael Ronner http://www.judisohn.com/2008/02/my_vision_for_data_portability_utopia/comment-page-1/#comment-18685 Michael Ronner Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:25:59 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2008/02/my_vision_for_data_portability_utopia/#comment-18685 We don't use GoogleDocs, as our clients are not ready for them. We still make word documents. When we need to work on a documant with a client we attach it to a task in Wrike [http://www.wrike.com/]. It's our project management tool, that we use instead of Basecamp. This way we don't need to work this dozens of different copies of one document. Wrike's very convenient for this. We don’t use GoogleDocs, as our clients are not ready for them. We still make word documents. When we need to work on a documant with a client we attach it to a task in Wrike [http://www.wrike.com/]. It’s our project management tool, that we use instead of Basecamp. This way we don’t need to work this dozens of different copies of one document. Wrike’s very convenient for this.

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