Back in April, when Adriana and I visited the Bay area, we did a lunchtime talk about the Mine! project at Google. Here is the second part; apologies for the delay in posting it, there were more slides to sync audio against, in my half.
The Mine! project is about equipping people with tools and functionality to enable them:
• take charge of their data (content, relationships, transactions, knowledge)
• arrange (analyse, manipulate, combine, mash-up) it according to their needs and preferences and
• share it on their own terms
• whilst connected and networked on the web.
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on Jul 4th, 2009
@ 2:30 pm:
[...] take time, and there are a number of projects underway. Check out The Mine! Project, including Alec Muffett’s latest — his slides from a recent Google Tech Talk. Check out what Iain Henderson says about his work with VPI (volunteered personal information) and [...]
Dave Walker
on Jul 4th, 2009
@ 8:00 pm:
“Information intermediaries” == “one of the advertised ‘Problems’, ’solved’ by a ‘National ID Card’”.
Therefore, It Simply Can’t Work.
“Your address is on your website and under your control”, *unless* some intermediary between your website and the folk who want to know your details, have cached a copy and somehow fail (whether by malice or incompetence) to notice the fact that you’ve updated your details. Your accountability / audit argument works in this context, though.
FWIW, this sounds like an interesting semi-parallel near-equivalent to my Cloud design axioms. Therefore, I think we’re both on the same interesting path, in fairly different contexts.
Dave Walker
on Jul 4th, 2009
@ 8:03 pm:
Oh, and tags are *bad*, because there’s no centralised dictionary of them, or even a consistent syntax for them.
alecm
on Jul 5th, 2009
@ 10:38 am:
No argument about ID-cards being bad from me, but regards:
>Oh, and tags are *bad*, because there’s no centralised dictionary of them, or even a consistent syntax for them.
And why is that *bad*?
You’ve seen the chaos os someof our colleague’s desks… it’s not a problem for *them* and (in a Mine even moreso than an office desk) being a personal workspace it’s not exposed to anyone else — so I don’t see the issue.
A Tagsonomy (sic) is for the user to choose and manage on their own, and entirely a matter of self-discipline.
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on Jul 10th, 2009
@ 5:41 am:
[...] first video, Adriana deals with the user perspective of the Mine, and why it is being created; the second video is me reviewing the technical goals and talking about the [...]
Dhruv
on Jan 20th, 2010
@ 8:56 am:
Interesting concept! Very cool.
However, I have a view on the existence of multi-national corps to manage this. The value add that these corps bring to the table is simplicity for the layman. And potentially, advanced infrastructure for security in this case.
I can see myself using Mine. But I can’t see some of my non-techie friends using it. Hence, there is a need. And when there is a need, there is a corporation.