Tim Berners-Lee says we should demand our data back from major companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. The idea is if we think of this data as ours, not the property of these various companies, we can start to standardize those data and really build some personalized apps. From
The Guardian article:
Exploiting such data could provide hugely useful services to individuals, he said, but only if their computers had access to personal data held about them by web companies. "One of the issues of social networkingsilos is that they have the data and I don't … There are no programmes that I can run on my computer which allow me to use all the data in each of the social networking systems that I use plus all the data in my calendar plus in my running map site, plus the data in my little fitness gadget and so on to really provide an excellent support to me."
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