Persona Editor
Google Tech Talk July 7, 2009 ABSTRACT “Outliners can be a great way of editing web accounts, normalizing the web and creating new kinds of structures” Presented by Marc Canter. This talk will be a presentation of a design Marc has done for a new kind of tool – which I call a “Persona Editor”. The tool would be an on-line two-way tool which would leverage two-way APIs, the open web and the on-going movement of the Open Stack. Of particular focus will be a proposal for an outline format which would accompany ‘dashboards’ that would facilitate distributed friending, access controls and many other kinds of distributed architectures. What I really need is feedback on is many of the assumptions and designs I’ve made on what users will want. I’ll also propose a new notion that I have that has tools creating dynamic structures which can keep users and their data synchronized between social networks, social media, repositories, etc. Marc Canter: Bio at blog.broadbandmechanics.com Marc Canter, CEO of Broadband Mechanics (BBM) is a 25+ year veteran of the software business. BBM is a boutique social networking design and platform shop – specializing in building systems that support the open stack, custom semi-private networks and strategic thinking. Marc is an advocate of open social networking, open standards and what he calls the open mesh. A speaker and panel moderator at many conferences around the world, Marc is not afraid to ask the hard questions which highlight the desire …
