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Download Squad talks Data Portability at SXSW

by Christina Warren Mar 31st 2008


Download Squad talks to Chris Saad of Dataportability.org from Download Squad on Vimeo.


We've written about the DataPortability Project before (we even linked to a video explaining the concept) but at SXSWi 2008 we were lucky enough to talk about the project with co-founder and chairperson, Chris Saad. The project is still in the early stages of development, but the premise is powerful and the momentum that has taken place in just the last 90 days is extremely impressive.

Tags: chris saad, ChrisSaad, data portability, DataPortability, social networks, SocialNetworks, sxsw2008

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Microsoft to join DataPortability.org

by Christina Warren Jan 23rd 2008

Computerworld is reporting (and ReadWriteWeb is confirming) that Microsoft will be joining the Data Portability Working Group. Microsoft adds to the growing list of companies that have signed on with DataPortability.org. Since the beginning of the year, Google, Facebook, Plaxo, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr (Yahoo!) and SixApart have joined the project. The project, which in its own words, aims to allow users to "connect, control, share and remix" their data across multiple online services and protocols. As the Computerworld article points out, getting Microsoft to join in is a real boon to the project because of its vast user base. More than 400 million users have an account with Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail or both.

The concept of data portability has become a pretty hot topic in the last few weeks, thanks to the brouhaha over Robert Scoble's screen-scraping scheme that led him to get banned from Facebook for less than a day and with the announcement that high profile players, Google and Facebook, would be joining the endeavor.

As a video we posted last week explains, attempting to keep accounts and contacts synchronized across multiple sites and platforms is one of the more tedious side effects of the whole Web 2.0 revolution. DataPortability.org wants to change that.

And although it is still very early, moves like last week's announcement that Yahoo! will begin supporting the OpenID 2.0 framework leave us hopeful and inspired.

Tags: data portability, DataPortability, hotmail, microsoft, openid, social graphs, SocialGraphs, windows live, WindowsLive

Filed under: Developer, Internet, Productivity, Social Software, web 2.0

Data Portability explained in video

by Romeo Wahed Jan 15th 2008

There has been a lot of buzz about Data Portability with newcomers like Facebook and Plaxo joining, but you might still be wondering what exactly all this means in the big picture. Well, Michael Pick of Smashcut Media has been kind enough to create a little piece that attempts to put everything into perspective and what the Data Portability movement is about.



If we're allowed to take one random stab at what's in store for the future, this is probably going to be the first major component of Web 3.0. Since it looks like a lot of barriers that prevent users from integrating services will be removed, the focus will continue to shift towards content and usability. Chances are good that this is going to really bring in the competition - start-ups will find it easier to acquire new users and the big dogs will have to fight harder to hold on to them.

Since we're not professional fortune tellers, this is just a hunch. But it's probably going to take at least another year before we see Data Portability living up to any of its promises.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

Tags: data portability, DataPortability, explanation, video, web 3.0, Web3.0

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