Comments on: Google and Facebook Join the Data Portability Movement; Someone Get Marshall a Defrib Stat!

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

thanks ben - i assume you mean me, Allen.

I have signed up to the google group!

By: JeremyB

JeremyB — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If indeed the big guys walk the walk they’re talking — a big if — the real impact of today’s announcement will be a dramatic increase in the number of people behaving socially. Think of all those Yahoo! Mail and Gmail users seamlessly making their contacts the center for their social own social experiences, many (if not most) for the very first time. All the Facebook-mania aside, social media is just getting warmed up, and it’s an exciting time for everyone.

More here: http://brijit.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/take-your-data-and-run-like-hell/

By: Ben Metcalfe

Ben Metcalfe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Alan, thanks for the coverage.

Everyone is welcome to join the group. We just need people to commit to what they can contribute – be they individual, rep of a BigCorp, or media.

In terms of it being SV orientated, Chris Saad (and others) are located in Austrialia, Kris Tate lives in Japan, Ian Forrester lives in the UK and I’m technically a non-resident Brit.

Let us know what you can do, or just join the Google Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think this whole data portability thing is blown out of proportion, no more so than at RWW. Although they can’t just call it recommendations or a profile, it’s got to be a social graph and attention data to make it sound special.

The issue I have in general, is there is just not that much information I want someone to know about me. Especially with personal relationship information, it’s just not something I want to have copied around, and frankly I’m not Robert Scoble– I don’t keep track of hundreds or thousands of people. And if I did, I wouldn’t want every one of them with me across every site I log into. I need some personal space after all.

Yeah, I might want to export my musical preferences to a few places. Maybe. I mean, most recommendation engines blow, so I end up back at Amazon reading reviews and recommendations anyway, then off to wherever I want to apply that. So it’s not the data portability holding me back, it’s the quality of the recommendations and services that I’d get if the data were portable.

I think it’s a solution to a waaay overblown ‘problem’.