Google, Facebook and Plaxo `join in’
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The DataPortability Workgroup has announced that representatives from Facebook, Google and Plaxo have signed on as its members. The group, spearheaded by Chris Saad of start-up Faraday Media, is an alliance of Web thinkers devoted to “(putting) all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end data portability.”
“Their joint support of the DataPortability initiative presents a new opportunity for the next generation of software — particularly in the fields of social software, user rights and interoperability,” said the group in a statement.
DataPortability Workgroup is primarily working to create a `DataPortability Reference Design’ to document the best practices for integrating existing open standards and protocols for maximum interoperability. This means that users can access their friends and media across all the applications, social networking sites and widgets that implement the design into their systems.
Last week, the debate over data portability was ignited when popular blogger Robert Scoble (a DataPortability member) was banned from Facebook for using a script from Plaxo.
Social-networking interoperability across the Web is being touted as a necessary next step in the evolving medium. Google’s much-talked about OpenSocial initiative, which will use a common markup language to make applications and widgets compatible among participating social networks, so far does not include a plan for data sharing between different services.
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