Musings on law, tech, chess & other topics by a geek

I have been playing with a new plug in that creates polls.  Here is my first hack at it, have fun sharing your thoughts on privacy v. free speech.

Jeff Jarvis gave a great talk on the value of being open. I love what Jeff has done with his online presence, he talks about many personal things in his life online at buzzmachine.

My favorite slide from his presentation was on Digital Rights here is Jeff’s Digital Bill of Rights:

A Bill of Rights in Cyberspace

I. We have the right to connect.
II. We have the right to speak.
III. We have the right to speak in our languages.
IV. We have the right to assemble.
V. We have the right to act.
VI. We have the right to control our data.
VII. We have the right to our own identity.
VIII. What is public is a public good.
IX. The internet shall be built and operated openly.

Full blog post on the digital bill of rights

Critic: My only negative here is that he does not deal well unpopular ideas facts.  Jeff argues that taboos will fade with more information about people.  This sounds good until it is you that losses a job or worse.

Great talk I strongly agree with a rights based approach to privacy.

But, I am questionable whether IP are the rights rights to follow I would like to look to the moral rights of Europe. Additionally I advocate for limited regulation and safe harbors that embrace best practices that protect users.

I will reload this video tonight, I am cutting it up to make it shorter now.

Here are my notes on the pre-privacy identity innovation confernce.  This first day had a social event with wine and cheese followed by a start up pitch slam.  Each start up was given 5 minutes to talk and was grilled for 5 more by a panel of experts.  I have some low quality videos of each and will add them to the post as they get uploaded.

Bynamite – This is a browser app that lets you control the information that is shared with other, kind of no rights to delete and when you download / install you get lots of scary warnings.  I love the idea the features and marketing need work.

IdeaScale – Decent idea rating platform with some ration on government sites.  This was the only one to mention Bobby 508 or any accessibility standards!

Optify SEO & ROI for web content & social network content – No clue how this one won, there are others in this space and I heard little new from them.  They have a big team and lots of capital.

Pathable – I like this start up.  It was the only one I personally used.  They have done well connecting people at local Bar Camps.  It is a social interaction tool for conferences.

Tweetajob – Geo / skill based job listing target at your wants via twitter, but not twitter specific.  If it works for other services they may want to revisit the name.

Unvarnished Professional review site – could learn a lot from Avvo… it is still in beta and does not get the need to build community yet.

Yoursphere – How to we protect the children from the big bad internet, well this presentation promoted fear as the answer along with a walled garden.  I am skeptical of a for profit that forms a 501(c)3 to act as an “education” / marketing arm of the corp. At least she mentions COPA, the Child Online Protection Act which is great although I am skeptical over her read of COPA. Show me what is cool about your site, do not try to scare me into using your service.

I all got a few videos from the Audience Choice candidates. These start ups had only one minute to talk and 1 of them moved on to give a 5 minute pitch.

Intern Match Great speaker for the 1 min part, an intern in fact! Which got them into the 5 minute presentations!

Open Mobile Solution - sorry i blinked and missed this one

Puzzazz Puzzle of the day site, cute but not amazing or incredibly new.

Secret 1-2-3 This is the one I voted for, it was the only one that had to do with privacy… It is an encrypted email solution.

Wishpot - online wish list, I like the idea but did not hear how it was better then Amazon.

There was one big area where this could be improved Q&A.   Only the “experts” were allow to ask questions from the audience this is very  Gen X or even baby-boomer in style. This conference was filled with smart people why turn them into tv watchers.

I will be live blogging parts of pii 2010 for the next three days.  This should be an interesting conference, pii stands for Privacy Identity & Innovation.  The speakers list is very corporate and includes Mircosoft, Google, Paypal, Perkins Coie, Oracle, CBS news & AT&T. Topics for the conference include:

• How emerging technologies & business models are impacting the way data is created, shared and aggregated
• Effective approaches for building online trust with users
• Ways in which user preferences and social norms are shifting
• Changes in the regulatory landscape, in the U.S. and internationally
• The role of anonymity and the future of reputation management on the Web
• The latest developments in user-centric identity management

The speakers list is notably missing three organization that do the most to protect privacy in the US: the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. This seems like a large oversight given the topic. In fact this is the first conference I have been to on the West Coast with PFF a libertarian think tank out of DC but not EFF, maybe that is due to my free culture leanings when choosing conferences to attend.