Tom Altman’s Wedia Conversation

This was a post last week speaking about different companies data - and how “clean” it is:

People don’t trust other people these days. According to Stephen M.R. Covey in his new book, The Speed of Trust, “only 34% of Americans believe that other people can be trusted.” My bet is that it’s even lower for companies. Which is a sad state of affairs, if you think about it.

How much fun is it when your friend sends you a new link to a new social networking site and you have the fear of typing all that data in, again.

There is a great video from the dataportability.org team which explains their effort.

We’ve been writing a lot about data portability here lately, and specifically the DataPortability.org Work Group. High level members of Google and Facebook staff joined the group a week ago yesterday, key people from LinkedIn, SixApart, Flickr and Twitter joined two days after that, the new Mozilla CEO told us last night that his organization is looking closely and will likely join the group.

This is great stuff and will truly help transitions as time moves forward.  Good luck.

I had never seen “R/Evolution” appear like that - I love it. That explains exactly what you want to say so many times. I think I’ll take it for my “toolbox”.

Anyway - more importantly…I found this in a post from information aesthetics - it’s a video explaining the evolution of data and data storage/retrieval.

This video was created as a “conversation” starter & works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future & the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate & create information effectively.