First we see Google, Facebook and Plaxo join the DataProtability Workgroup, and now we have individuals from LinkedIn, SixApart, Twitter and Flickr. There is hope! It was starting to look like another “war” was brewing, this time around social networking frameworks, with Google announcing OpenSocial and Facebook backlashing by opening up the Facebook Platform. Hopefully these key social networking players will work together through the DataPortability Workgroup to develop a common set of rules for sharing data between websites and applications.
This is all very new still. I’m hoping they stick it out, but I wouldn’t be surprised if one or two of the new additions bail on this effort if things don’t go their way; I certainly hope that’s not the case though.
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