July 12th, 2007 by tobi
Take this:
WhoAmI is a tool to aggregate your personal media shared on the internet. Everything what you share, your images, videos, bookmarks, music, blog posts etc. are merged into one place. The content is analyzed on keywords, permalinks and mapped to a simple ontology. If no tags are available the content is automatically tagged. Is a tag identified as location its geodata is added.
The resulting semantic relations are visualized via tagcloud, timeline, map or in detail. For further processing, your media can be accessed via RSS Feed or iCal (e.g. adding to your feed reader or calendar).
Primary access to the data is established trough the APIs of the web-services. Therefore your password or authorization has to be provided. If you feel uncomfy giving away your data, just provide your username. This falls back to public accessible RSS/Atom feeds. Although this doesn’t give access to data of the past, your future content is processed as nearly good as content aggregated via API.
Features in summary:
- support for multiple Web2.0 profiling accounts: Flickr, Youtube, Last.fm, Del.icio.us and Wordpress Blogs
- analyzation on shared tags, permalinks
- automatic tag retrieving of blog posts via tagthe.net
- automatic (simple) geotagging of found plazes
- Thumbnail preview
- Detail view of relations, time, tags, plaze etc.
- Timeline & GeoTag visualization
- Filter on time, tags and content type
- RSS & iCal access
- Account data fallback to RSS/ATOM feed in case password/auth is not provided
- see top relations
- see clustered data
- support for OpenID sign on
- Controllable background workes for fetching content asynchronous
- implemented with RubyOnRails
- 100% RESTful
- MySQL DB backend
- OpenSource
- Web 2.0 – yeah!
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July 5th, 2007 by tobi
Hey, check this out! I just found this random sLife profile page. The guy (or somelse) watched (well, not so) strange movies, sLife tracked and shared them online. Now, everyone can see which flicks he watched – nice!. His excuse: pay no attention to the hokey pokey videos there. It wasnt me… I swear!
Well done! 
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June 27th, 2007 by tobi
Listen (MP3) to Danah Boyd! She speaks with Berkman Luncheon about her research and work on social networks and – as you know – there’s no better way to search for identity as in social networks!
Read the full article here
via netzpolitik.org
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June 23rd, 2007 by sebastian
My beloved magazine Technology Review republishes a printed article about the mixup of second life and google earth. It makes me think about what will be in the future. Can we trust the identities in second life?
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June 19th, 2007 by sebastian
Today I was trying out 30boxes, because someone told me it is much better than Google Calendar. I typed in my email, username to subscribe and wondered.
Suddenly it knews my twitter-acoount, my flickr-photos and myspace blog. Furthermore it provides me with a picture of me, the one I have on twitter.
The good thing is, I do not have to retype all those informations… 
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June 19th, 2007 by sebastian
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June 19th, 2007 by tobi
I do have a problem: I like profiling and my privacy! Can they exists simultaneously?
I’m really into all the web2.0-profiling stuff: flickr, delicious, youtube, lastfm, plazes, twitter, myspace, facebook, blogs… It’s amazing how easily you can publish and share your stuff. Collect your friends, discuss, meet new people, get feedback and new inspirations. Do you remember the good old days where self-hacked-static-html-websites was so only way to get online? What a mess – for god’s sake – they’re finally gone!
But every coin has two sides. As it is so down-to-earth to use people tend to share everything – without knowing what they are doing. Internet is a big, everlasting archive: once your data is in, it’ll get never out – and google & co. get it all. As of this, foreign people may have access to your data, which was only meant for your friends or personal storage. Years later, you data can be found – even it’s already deleted on your page – google cache and archive.org do thier best! Who no-techie-users knows about that? I myself must confess, I don’t know what personal data of mine is already out there, it’s so hard to keep track.
As my tool whoami displays, its technical quite simple to aggregate your data, create relations, new coherences. Suddenly your are transparent for everyone!
So, what is a good solution to strike a balance between sharing data and still having privacy? Is it just using those websites with brain & care? Do we need more technical support, do we need more educational advertising?
(for those who read this article in ten years later: sorry I was young and need that money
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June 12th, 2007 by sebastian
Under the title “Die schöne neue Welt der Überwachung” SPIEGEL-Online brings us a flashmovie which illustrates the links between observation and everdaylife. Good motivation to think about good and bad sides of observation and new techniques.
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June 12th, 2007 by sebastian
Tobi has not introduced himself seperatly yet, so I do it for me in some short phrases. My name is Sebastian, I am studying computer science at Freie Uni Berlin. In 2006 I write a thesis “Semantische Aggregation personenbezogener Daten“. It was published by XML Clearinghouse. It describes what data lies around on the internet and what is maybe possible with it in someones hands.
Coincidentally I met Tobi at reublica in Berlin. Shortyl we realized our final thesis topics are quite similar. So why not work and blog together? Some time later it all begins. Now the title of my thesis is “Interessenprofile in virtuellen Identitäten”. My supervisor is professor Robert Tolksdorf, head of group “Networked Information Systems (FU Berlin, Informatik)“.
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June 11th, 2007 by tobi
netzpolitik.org just published the re:publica video of my supervisor Stephan Baumann and Ralf Bendrath talking about net-identity – ‘Identität im Netz’
..sorry, german only..
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