11 posts and columns on data portability

No Facebook User Emails for Google–But Yahoo and Microsoft Already Have Access

in Social on November 9, 2010 at 6:06 pm PT

Facebook and Google are hardly friends these days, and they’re having more and more trouble containing their dislike.

BlackBerry Bold Not Quite iPhone Beautiful

in News on May 12, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

New From Google: AdWords Connect

in Social on May 12, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

Google calls its latest data portability effort Friend Connect, but a better name might have been AdWord Connect. Because, like most Google initiatives, that’s really what it’s all about, isn’t it? Connecting people to ads?
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CircuitBuster City Block

in News on May 9, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

MySpace Announces "Revenue Unavailability" Project

in Social on May 8, 2008 at 4:50 pm PT

This morning, Peter Chernin, the chief operating officer of News Corp. (NWS) (which owns Dow Jones and this site), acknowledged that Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace, will fall short of its goal of generating $1 billion in revenue for fiscal 2008. A surprising shortfall for a division that operates the strongest social-networking offering on [...]

MySpace Announces “Revenue Unavailability” Project

in Social on May 8, 2008 at 4:50 pm PT

This morning, Peter Chernin, the chief operating officer of News Corp. (NWS) (which owns Dow Jones and this site), acknowledged that Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace, will fall short of its goal of generating $1 billion in revenue for fiscal 2008. A surprising shortfall for a division that operates the strongest social-networking offering on [...]

Welcome to Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg. Free My Data!

in News on March 27, 2008 at 12:27 pm PT

On your fourth day at Facebook, my data said to me: Sheryl will surely set us free. But, let’s be realistic–getting ubiquitous data portability is about as likely as actually finding a partridge in a pear tree. Still, here’s an issue the new COO can actually sink her teeth into, as the notion of who [...]

Embrace. Extend …. What Comes Next, Again?

in Social on March 25, 2008 at 12:09 am PT

In February, Microsoft surprised industry watchers and embraced the idea of data portability, throwing its support behind OpenID, a decentralized digital-identity protocol. This morning came the inevitable extension of that idea, the announcement of a partnership with five social networks on a new data-portability strategy.

Free the Scoble 5,000!!

in News on January 3, 2008 at 6:04 am PT

It is easy to make light of the constant swirl of twittery online activity that surrounds well-known blogger Robert Scoble. But Facebook’s disabling of his account yesterday–because he was apparently using a script to access and pull data from his own profile there to move it to other social graphs of his choice–is not going [...]