Friday, October 3, 2008

Why Portability Matters

Ian Forrester from BBC Backstage says a user has rights on-line. Be careful, when you sign up to social networks, don't import your contacts from other services.
Open ids etc means identity is difficult.
Look at cloud computing through google Microsoft Mesh, with UMPCs like eeepcs.
There are some services which lock you in in the cloud, be careful.
BBC did a concert in SL, but couldn't get it out to broadcast on TV.
Richard Stillman says the cloud is a trap.
Having access to the cloudatany time means the death of pub quizzes! :-)
A good model is how we are doing things at College a pick & mix idea.
BBC is using Yammer, but there areissues about ownership of content etc.
BBC uses different solutions. Have to ensure you can export your data fromthe cloud.

1 comment:

Martin King said...

the cloud is a natural evolution of the "gravitational" theory of business - businesses get bigger and bigger - suck in all around them.

When chosing which cloud who you gonna call - you have to select someone who won't fold anytime soon - you gravitate to the big planets - Google, Microsoft - whre is IBM?