Forget Facebook

[Chris Saad]

I've written a post about the current data portability battle

http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/forget-facebook/

Would love comments.

[Step...@whatcelebswear.com]

Great post. Really clarified a lot for me. Long live dataportability!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Saad <chris...@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:30:47
To:"DataPortability.General" <dataportabi...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [DataPortability-Public] Forget Facebook

[Joaquin Salvachua]

I fully agree, they just want to have a control over our own identities and our social graph.

But like on many things before i think they are doomed to have it open (even may require some times).

Joaquin

[Julian Bond]

Chris Saad <chris...@gmail.com> Fri, 16 May 2008 10:30:47

>I've written a post about the current data portability battle
>http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/forget-facebook/

Nice.

The reference to email is interesting. hotmail, yahoomail and Gmail are
very, very large repositories of social graph data. But people think
quite differently about data portability of email based contact lists
from SN based. It's ok to download a CSV or vcard file from gmail into
Outlook but it's not ok to do the same thing from a social network?

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[Aaron Cheung]

Nice read.. re social contract and trust and concepts of ownership, since
you said you would love comments.. so some from yours truly -- by way of
citing the similar great minds of:
http://publius.cc/2008/05/13/kevin-werbach-steering-to-the-edge-of-trust/
http://publius.cc/2008/05/14/wendy-seltzer-learning-to-love-the-rules/
http://publius.cc/2008/05/15/reed-hundt-market-structure-rules/
http://publius.cc/2008/05/16/doc-searls-framing-the-net/

And, in addition to your "Forget Facebook" piece, am sure people here will be
delighted to hear your elaborations about Facebook's influential shareholder,
as http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/play_the_news_data_portability.php
quoted you saying, on capacity of being co-founder of this project, that -
"Microsoft, who Saad told us is the most data portability friendly company."

PS: as people know of me via my TC comments, I'm longtimer fan of Microsoft,
just so I'm not mistaken.. Regards, /ac.