Jim McCusker’s Blog

Baring any last minute changes, at midnight of February 17, 2009 all full power TV stations in the United States will switch off their analog transmitters.   If you already have cable or satellite TV this will not affect your TV’s connected to these services, but if you are like me and have a spare TV receiving your local channels just for convienience then you only have two options:  rent another digital cable/satellite box or purchase a digital converter box.  

The good news is that you can get a $40 coupon to use when you purchase a digital converter box.  Just head over to www.dtv2009.gov and sign up for up to two coupons.

Chris Saad was recently interviewed at The 2008 Next Web Conference in Amsterdam. I took some notes about what he said so I could compare this to what’s current posted at the Data Portability website. You can watch the interview here.

What is Data Portability?
DP addresses the need to move data between services within your control and ownership.

Example:
Log into Facebook

• FB becomes aware of other vendor services you are associated with
• FB asks your permission to access and share with other vendors
• The other vendor services request your permission to share

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