Worth your attention: DataPortability.org – Share and remix data using open standards. Scoble has been publicly testing the portability of Facebook data (relevant posts: Facebook disabled my account, Unintended advantages, and What I was using…) in the past day and (of course) found the results to be less than ideal. I have a feeling that data portability is going to be one of the important issues of 2008. Finally.
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Zeke says
Howdy!
By any chance do you know if Scoble is an investor in Plaxo?
Saw this after reading your post and went “hmmmm…”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/technology/03plaxo.html
mikel says
I don’t know that, Chris.
I should also clarify that I didn’t mean to suggest that I am for Scoble and against “evil” Facebook in my post – I was just passing along interesting news.
I think Scoble habitually oversimplifies complex issues. Scoble’s problem isn’t really about data portability, his problem seems to be with the portability of his contacts’ data.
Zeke says
Howdy!
Bingo! and nicely put as well.