Plaxo, Facebook, and Google go ‘open’ by joining DataPortability.org

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January 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Google, Social Software, web 2.0

In the wake of last week’s explosion of attention on data portability on social networks, (that is, being able to take your data from one social network to the other) there is a huge development today. Google, Facebook, and Plaxo have all announced they’re joining DataPortability.org.

What does this mean? Well to quote the announcement directly, “Users will be able to access their friends and media across all the applications, social networking sites and widgets that implement the design into their systems”. Potentially it means social network widget and application creators will be able to write their widgets for use on any compatible social network.

Considering all these social networks are fighting for our attention, we are not sure how ‘open’ these social graphs will truly be. Will we be able to export our friends list from Facebook and take it over to MySpace and vice versa? Might we be able to take Facebook applications and use them in MySpace?

These are the types of questions that still need to be answered. Stay tuned to Download Squad for updates as they come across the wire.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

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