thinkupapp

"Facebook is the Devil"
"Google is Evil"
"Twitter is stupid"

Whatever you may think about these sites, you probably use them in some way, and you know they are using you for profit.  But hey, they are free services and provide utility to a billion people.  So what do you do with all that rich connected social data when Facebook becomes MySpace or My_ whatever and fades to obsecurity for crappy bands?

This is the session for you if you think this is important, and I'll explain why you should be thinking about it if you don't. I'll demo free and open source tech that will help you retain *your* data wherever you want. Also we can talk about the pay services that do this, but I can't afford them.  

Topics:

• Google's DLF - Not a fully baked solution, but interesting so far
• ThinkUp - Great for twitter
• Locker Project - New hotness on Data Liberation
• RSS - Old school but still important for data exchange
• Diaspora - how can you squander $200,000 ;)
• Managing News - Had to get a drupal project in here

Come with your servers loaded with php, mongodb, mysql/mariadb node,js and liberate your data!