Digg Moves to Adopt DataPortability Standards
Mark Hendrickson
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The DataPortability Project has gained another adherent in Digg, which announced on its blog today that it has implemented three under-the-hood enhancements.
These include implementation and improved support for XFN and hCard, which help other sites access information about your friends on Digg. The site has also added RDF to make its pages more semantic web friendly.
Digg joins Facebook, Google, Plaxo, Six Apart, LinkedIn, and Microsoft in its welcome decision to support DataPortability. But one has to wonder where its enthusiasm for the related OpenID movement has gone.
In February 2007, Kevin Rose said that Digg would begin adopting OpenID by the end of that year, but we haven’t seen any action on that front. Let’s just hope Digg doesn’t remain in the wrong camp for much longer.
Digg is actually using RDFa (RDF in Attributes), a way to embed RDF semantics right into the HTML itself. Like microformats on steroids with distributed innovation to boost.
Nice, the way to go!
While this particular move is not earth-shaking, it fits into a context of major tectonic proportions. 2008 will be the year of data portability, even though most people are skeptical on the topic.