<div><br></div><div>Ahh, I see that everyone's finally catching up to my Twitter feed - (haha! I couldn't resist, sorry :) </div><div><br></div><div>I had a conversation with Tweeps earlier today about Moves, and lots of divided reaction. On one hand, people are happy it will survive; on the other, that it will be used for advertising in FB with an uncertain future. The worst case scenario: moves's developer-friendly side gets shuttered just so that the team can deeply integrate their technology into service FB's needs, so that they have all of your private information AND prevent you from accessing it too. But I think realistically FB will probably make a developer API available... maybe.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm never happy when innovative companies are acquired; the likelihood that moves will quit being maintained and be shuttered goes up significantly, although perhaps not as much as it would have with Google (which is famous for killing-after-eating). Moves is one of those endpoints we have *solely* relied upon up to now for high resolution contextual user data for INDX. It's time for us to reconsider. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This is key reason that I shy away from services. You never know when they're going to go away - and leave you high and dry. Had a really lively argument at the Linked Data Workshop this year after the Linked Data Fragments paper which cited that the major core linked data cloud endpoints have an average uptime of ~90%, which makes them entirely unsuitable for use in deployment. Moves has had a much higher uptime/reliability, but now we realise how fragile things really have been. As TimBL said at WWW, "we need to build architectures of autonomy" - so if INDX is going to serve that need, we can't rely on services like Moves.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So the appropriate reaction to the Moves acquisition regarding long term strategy is two fold 1) well, we really need a better solution that doesn't leak all of your private data to some server in Finland anyway, and 2) it will all probably be integrated into iOS/android by sometime next year anyway. 3) maybe some OSS hacker who has more time on his hands than I do will build one. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I am just hoping the door stay open long enough for us to do our CHI studies this summer.</div><div><br></div><div>In other news, Moves is now free again on the iTunes App Store. So, if you don't mind FB having all of your data, now's a good time to buy!</div>
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