Sharing Friends (and Data) Across Social Networks
The big news this week in the world of social networking was yesterday’s announcement that Google, Plaxo, and Facebook have joined the Data Portability Workgroup (DPW) along with MySpace and Yahoo!. The mission of the DPW group is to create interoperability between social networks which would allow members to access friends and media between all of the social communities to which they belonged. For more coverage of this story, check out:
- Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join The DataPortability Workgroup – TechCrunch
- Facebook will let users share content across sites – NJ.com
- The “open” social graph on the horizon – Forrester’s Groundswell blog

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