Comments on: I am My Data, My Data is Me http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/06/i-am-my-data-my-data-is-me/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:11:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Gavin Doughtie http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/06/i-am-my-data-my-data-is-me/#comment-137 Gavin Doughtie Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:12:56 +0000 http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/06/i-am-my-data-my-data-is-me/#comment-137 Yes! You can keep customers with a great application, but they must always own their own data. Imagine that web-based drawings or photographs exist in some virtual filesystem that a person accesses via a series of sign-ons. I should be able to get at my own photographs whether I'm using Flickr or Picasa or iPhoto or whatever. (I wanted to leave this comment on your earlier post, because we're doing some overlapping efforts. Check out http://www.xdraw.org/ and look at my drawing editor. I've been working on a cross-browser API also, for inclusion in the dojo toolkit. Perhaps you would be interested in joining that efffort? Please drop me an email if you'd like to discuss it.) Yes! You can keep customers with a great application, but they must always own their own data. Imagine that web-based drawings or photographs exist in some virtual filesystem that a person accesses via a series of sign-ons. I should be able to get at my own photographs whether I’m using Flickr or Picasa or iPhoto or whatever.

(I wanted to leave this comment on your earlier post, because we’re doing some overlapping efforts. Check out http://www.xdraw.org/ and look at my drawing editor. I’ve been working on a cross-browser API also, for inclusion in the dojo toolkit. Perhaps you would be interested in joining that efffort? Please drop me an email if you’d like to discuss it.)

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