Roosenmaallen.com » dataportability http://roosenmaallen.com Computers, spirituality, and the other things that make me go. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:25:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 And the walls come down? Google and Facebook have joined Dataportability.org! http://roosenmaallen.com/2008/01/09/and-the-walls-come-down-google-and-facebook-have-joined-dataportabilityorg/ http://roosenmaallen.com/2008/01/09/and-the-walls-come-down-google-and-facebook-have-joined-dataportabilityorg/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:46:01 +0000 Eddie Roosenmaallen http://roosenmaallen.com/2008/01/09/and-the-walls-come-down-google-and-facebook-have-joined-dataportabilityorg/ Yesterday, it was announced that representatives from Google, Facebook and Plaxo have joined the Dataportability.org workgroup.

This is a huge step towards an open, interoperable social web; Google and Facebook are probably the two largest collectors and holders of data (social and otherwise) on the web, and they have been among the most reticient about sharing their data.

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