Darryl Patterson

At the beginning of 2008, the idea of data portability (DP) was making headlines, especially when all the big guys threw their hats into the ring – including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Flickr & Twitter. If you’re not sure just what data portability is, the Data Portability Project defines it like so:
“Data portability is the ability for people to reuse their …

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 …