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Aggregated blog posts from the community (including ourselves)

OSF/LSE on the privacy implications of Mydex

11 May 2011 by William Heath

Prerequisite to the success of personal data services are the security of the data and the privacy of the individual. To that end the Open Society Foundation funded a study of the privacy implications of the Mydex community prototype which has just con…

4 Trends Shaping the Emerging “Superfluid” Economy

9 May 2011 by Venessa Miemis

image by ericaglasier.com @EricaGlasier
This post originally appeared on CNN.com’s Global Public Square.
Humanity and technology continue to co-evolve at an ever increasing pace, leaving traditional institutions (and mindsets) calcified and out of da…

C3 Meets Internet Identity, VRM and Personal Data Ecosystems

8 May 2011 by Dean Landsman

Last Friday (April 29), in preparation for the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), Opus Research (with a big assist from Judi Clark) made our new headquarters the venue for a “C3 Salon.” The topics under discussion addressed some of the “boil the o…

Where Does My API Come From?

6 May 2011 by Dean Landsman

A lot of people step up to the Locker Project and are immediately looking to start using the data stack to create an application. I’m super excited that people can see the vision, and want to build on top of it, but it’s not quite there yet. Wi…