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Announcing DataConnect: an open source desktop app that pulls your cross-platform data in one click. Platforms lock your context in: there's no API to get your Shopify purchases, ChatGPT memories + conversations, or Spotify listen history. Try it out: account.vana.org/download-data-…

also, don't forget the Vibecheck tomorrow with @annakaz and @JackSpallone to chat about the @MemoryProtocol acquisition and other features of the Vana App Upgrade: Fri Jul 10 · 15:00 UTC x.com/i/spaces/1NGar…

we're holding 2 expert builder workshops on Monday to step you through how. APAC - Monday July 7 · 17:00 SGT / 09:00 UTC EU/US - Monday July 7 · 15:00 PST / 23:00 UTC join discord to register and attend: discord.gg/vanaofficial

your app can now ask a user directly for any data: Spotify history, sleep data, calendar (whatever they've connected) without having to go through platform APIs. Vana makes this possible.

Shoutout to our West Africa community! Last week @takeover_6 introduced Vana at the Africansservices × Flapdotsh Community Connect, talking about data ownership and why it matters. Always grateful to the Vamily for spreading the word about our mission. We see you. 💜

Join us for a Vana Vibecheck. Friday Jul 10, 15:00 UTC. @annakaz and @JackSpallone will talk about what shipped: Personal Server, Portable Memory MCP, the Data Portability API, and why the Memory Protocol acquisition puts the memory layer under your ownership. 30 minutes. Open Q&A: x.com/i/spaces/1NGar…

full details: vana.org/blog/own-your-…

try the beta. leave feedback. priority slots in the full release go to beta testers. everyone: app.vana.org builders: docs.vana.org/build-a-vana-a… don't forget to check our discord for workshops and office hours: discord.gg/vanaofficial

Vana has acquired the team behind @MemoryProtocol and dropped a major update to the Vana App. every major AI added memory this year. five walled gardens. your context lives on their servers, serves their product, stops at their wall. that's not very Vana. so, with the help of @JackSpallone, we've released something to keep you in control of your data

full write-up on what each voice brought, what the ZEG room was actually working through: vana.org/posts/anna-kaz…

@annakaz argument: personal data is the raw material of digital selfhood, and the conversation is now past defining the problem. it's asking which infrastructure runs underneath.

last week in tbilisi, @annakaz attended @zegfest to present on on a panel about data as a digital representation of the self, along with @mahsaalimardani, @dyergeoff and @NicDawes. also at the festival: @_KarenHao, @viet_t_nguyen, and some of the leading voices in the world of AI

Read the full write-up: vana.org/posts/what-ai-…

"The women we work with are building public profiles at exactly the moment this technology is becoming most dangerous." - Charlotte Allison-Bruce, Co-Director, Miss Australia Productions

What do beauty queens care about AI and data? More than you'd think. On June 19 we ran a workshop with Miss Australia Productions on exactly that.