I wrote down a bunch of notes about Steve Yegge's OSCON talk titled, How to Ignore Marketing and Become Irrelevant in Two Easy Steps. Rather than reading my notes, watch the talk for yourself! His slideshow didn't work, but he gave a fantastic speech regardless.
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Open Source Data … It’s Changing Your Life
Stormy Peters, OpenLogic
Open APIs:
- Programming interface to a database that can be accessed over the web
- Some are true APIs and some are just components that plug into your page
Are APIs open?
- No. OpenAPI != OpenSource
2 Types of Data:
- What the user types into a form (account, purchasing, privacy)
- What the user shares (reviews, ratings, comments)
Account information is usually your own.
Shared information is not longer your data.
People can find out a lot about a person by sharing data (delicious feed as an example)
