Comments on: LinkedIn Joins The DataPortability Work Group

By: www.ubraniaroxy.pl » Blog Archive » Digg Moves to Adopt DataPortability Standards

Fri, 02 May 2008 02:17:14 +0000

[...] joins Facebook, Google, Plaxo, Six Apart, LinkedIn, and Microsoft in its welcome decision to support DataPortability. But one has to wonder where its [...]

By: Timothy

Timothy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:24:43 +0000

Its a band wagon. Dont see this ever being any good or popular.

just think the hype and attention the google opensocial network had, now look at it.

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By: Regular Geek » Blog Archive » What Does Data Portability Mean To You?

Regular Geek » Blog Archive » What Does Data Portability Mean To You? — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:48:32 +0000

[...] What Does Data Portability Mean To You? Posted by admin In Social Media 11Jan 08 There has been a lot of news the past few days about data portability. I posted a summary and analysis of some of the news a few days ago. Today, the Data Portability Working Group announced that LinkedIn, Flickr, SixApart (TypePad and MovableType) and Twitter have joined as well. [...]

By: 113.com

113.com — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:20:21 +0000

Other than the giant players, isn’t it also time for the Group to also entertain the new players as well as those outside of the U.S.?

From the design of the page, there’s no obvious button to “Join”, giving the perception that it’s fast becoming a select closed group of elites.

Not that we or anybody is desperate to join, but in our opinion, as the Group is achieving some status (supported by advocates big and small), those who supported the Group before now just feel kinda excluded, instead of needed.

Just fyi,
/ac.

By: OMG

OMG — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:52:32 +0000

OMG, the data portability project is a freaking joke. First off, the site is utterly useless, pretty much having TOC along with a bunch of industry open standard acronyms scattered as “content”. If someone is serious about this effort, they sure aren’t serious in communicating the details to interested parties or IMO, what you get is what you see on the site which is nothing. The most promising thing about the effort is the phrase itself “Data Portability”. No wonder all the big boys jumped on the bandwagon. It’s a great way to get publicity and being labeled “open” when there is nothing to do.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:09:09 +0000

LinkedIn jumped on the OpenSocial bandwagon too - despite the fact that no one has been able to identify any benefit obtained by allowing widgets to operate on their site. They’ve also been slow in adding functionality to their site - there is little interactivity and although I have 150+ connections I’m rarely compelled to visit their site these days.

Lets hope they are really serious about data portability and not just interested in marketing themselves.

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:48:42 +0000

Finally had a chance to blog about this.

It’s not jus about data portability - it’s about crawling and equal access.

http://blog.spinn3r.com/2008/0.....d-soc.html

By: Carla

Carla — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:42:32 +0000

Valleywag is reporting that the main contributers to the DataPortability Work Group, are also employed as “Duke Nukem Forever” beta testers.

By: AnonTroll

AnonTroll — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:15:59 +0000

I *tried* (keyword being tried) to get more details about DP from their website but really couldn’t find much details. Are there any substance to DP currently or just a lot of big-pie-in-the-sky “vapor standards”?

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:55:28 +0000

Venture Beat made an interesting point the other day:

http://venturebeat.com/2008/01.....-the-feed/

It’s not just portability.

If the data is public, it should just be fully public an have the ability to be accessed by crawlers and robots and any other application which aggregated content.

So it’s not just the ability to be portable as it is the ability to be aggregated.

I really want this to be available indexed and sliced and diced Spinn3r on behalf of our clients.

By: EH

EH — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:04:47 +0000

Social networking discovers lobbying. Let the bureaucracy begin!

I’m guessing one of the outgrowths of this “working group” is to codify the level of apathy users have in protecting their personal data. Step 2 will be to put it into law.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:54:32 +0000

they also said they joined Open Social, yet that never happened. I was hoping to create apps using Open Social and Linkedin.

This is a great way to get FREE publicity. Just jump onto every new standard that comes along, and let TC blog you

By: John McCrea

John McCrea — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:44:43 +0000

It’s interesting to see the momentum building on this important topic.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:39:30 +0000

Marshall, Carla - totally fair points, and my apologies for the extreme skepticism. I just wanted to emphasize that *at this point* the moves by Facebook, Google, etc are pure PR; the real test will come in a year or two.

I too hope that the walls come down.

By: Carla

Carla — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:29:47 +0000

@Steve

I agree with your “I will believe when I see it” attitude,
but I don’t agree that this article is not news worthy.
This is a big movement and will result in new types of opportunities for start-ups and other companies, as well as have massive benefits for us the users.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:26:26 +0000

Oh and Steve, good going joining the working group. - now please try to make sure it aint just hot air, ok? Everybody wants to port their Steveness all over.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:25:03 +0000

Is it not because this is a relatively new, forward-looking set of standards in the works and getting these notoriously closed mega-vendors to come to the table is a remarkable sign of validation for an emerging paradigm? And ’cause everyone’s got their fingers crossed that it will mean something?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:21:52 +0000

I join the DataPortability Work Group!

Of course, I make no promises to support whatever standard is approved — or, more importantly, to work constructively for a standard that would lead to any more openness that I already have, but hey, Tech Crunch will write about it.

The real story here is why does anyone think that industry leaders joining a standards committee is news.