Google and Facebook participate DataPortability.org

This is a great news for Dataportability that Google and Facebook join there.





Dataportability.org brings together google, plaxo, and facebook
A storm-in-a-waterglass gathering more and more momentum, dataportability.org welcomes new members. Before they were heating up the storm, now individual corporate representatives of Scoble, Plaxo, and Facebook, are sitting on one virtual table.


Comments of people about this issue:

With any luck, I’m sure you’ll be kicked off of Facebook and other sites at least once before anything is done with Data Portability. I think it’s amusing everyone considers you some sort of Data Patriot for essentially being Plaxo’s willing guinea pig (with other bloggers who you always fail to mention). If a company asked you to violate a law to test software, would you? Or have you already? If Facebook hadn’t kicked you off and given you a chance to throw a public tantrum, would you have told everyone about your experiment?

The single question you seemed to have refused to answer is: what if even a single person on Facebook, in your friends list, likes being on Facebook because they have rules against things like you did? Or do you hold those people in as much contempt because they aren’t likely to enjoy your opinion on rulebreaking?


Breaking News:

Technirvana sends us to ReadWriteWeb for the scoop on the announcement this morning that representatives from Google and Facebook are joining the DataPortability Workgroup. Quoting:


"The group is working on a variety of projects to foster an era in which users can take their data from the websites they use to reuse elsewhere... Good bye customer lock-in, hello to new privacy challenges. If things go right, today could be a very important day in the history of the internet. The non-participation of Google and Facebook, two companies that hold more user data and do more with it than almost any other consumer service on the market, was the biggest stumbling block to the viability of the project. These are two of the most important companies in recent history — what's being decided now is whether they will be walled-garden, data-horders or truly open platforms tied into a larger ecosystem of innovation with respect for user rights and sensible policies about data."