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The Straight Scoop on Data Portability
Smashcut Media has put together this well-constructed video which explains the concept of data portability in straightforward terms that everyone can understand. Just yesterday I was thinking of how much easier it would be if data portability was a reality and I had just one global account for all of my media as I was adding the photos of my recent Fort Myers trip to Flickr, and then creating a separate Slide slideshow for Facebook. I was considering this earlier this month as well when I was sending out LinkedIn invites to my Facebook contacts. I’ll definitely be keeping tabs on this initiative.
June 7th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Wouldn’t this require each site to create identical frameworks? For example, what happens when you want to transfer your contacts and one site has “friends” and another site has “friends” and “family”?