More and more of the products of our work and recreational lives are digital in nature and often stored somewhere online. Keeping track of the work we have done and where it “lives” is an increasingly difficult task. One possible solution is the life portfolio, a collection of digital artifacts created across one’s lifespan and selectively shared based on the preferences of the creator. Life portfolios bring with them questions and issues like privacy, control of content, where content is stored, and what kind of interface or portal is used to access it. The emergence of social tools may shed some light on these issues and contribute to the development of tools to create, share and manage life portfolios.
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