Note: This page is curated by the Evangelism Action Group

A list of significant historical milestones leading to Data Portability. 

2008

February

2/21/2008 - Eclipse Releases Higgins User-Centric Identity Framework  

2/19/2008 - First Bi-Monthly DataPortability Steering Group Teleconference  

2/07/2008 - Data Portability Video Interviews Project Announced  

2/07/2008 - Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo Join OpenID Foundation Board.  

2/06/2008 - Article: Data Property Rights, Not Portability  

2/06/2008 - Article: Standardized Data Portability is the Next Great Frontier for the Web  

2/05/2008 - MySpace Launches Open Developer Platform  

2/02/2008 - Identity Commons Working Group 2007 Q4 Report and January News  

January

1/30/2008 - Announcement: Six Apart Opens Up  

Announcing a new plugin for Movable Type that allows users to aggregate, control, and share actions around the web.

1/29/2008 - Digg Joins the DataPortability Project  

1/25/2008 - Facebook Releases JavaScript Client Library API  

1/24/2008 - Microsoft Joins Data Portability Project  

1/22/2008 - Article: Social networks may find it does not pay to be too possessive  

Financial Times (FT.com) Kevin Allen writes about data-portability, quoting Tim Berners Lee and several industry representatives about the project's potential and consequences.

1/18/2008 - Plaxo and Yahoo! Integrate joint OpenID 2 Strategy

Follow the TechMeme conversation  

1/16/2008 - Video: DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix  

First DataPortability Project video, produced by Smashcut Media   (1m:49s)

1/15/2008 - Article: Mozilla CEO indicates interest in joining DataPortability  

1/11/2008 - Article: What we expect from the Data Portability Working Group  

Forrester strategic analyst Jeremy Owyang express his expectations from the DataPortability Workgroup.

1/10/2008 - Article: LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr and Six Apart join the DataPortability Workgroup  

Coverage by Marshall Kirkpatrick from ReadWriteWeb.

1/08/2008 - Google, Plaxo and Facebook announce membership DataPortability Workgroup

Follow the Techmeme conversation  

1/03/2008 - Robert Scoble tries to scrape his contacts off of his Facebook account.

Follow the Techmeme conversation  

1/02/2008 - Netscape Deeds RSS Specifications to the RSS Advisory Board  

2007

December

12/05/2007 - OpenID Authentication 2.0 - Final Draft  

12/05/2007 - OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0 - Final  

12/04/2007 - OAuth Core 1.0 Final Specification Released  

November

11/22/2007 - OPML 2.0 Specification Authored by Dave Winer  

11/10/2007 - DataPortability Project is founded  

October

10/15/2007 - RSS 2.0.10 by the RSS Advisory Board  

July

April

February

2/14/2007 - AOL Developers Announce Testing OpenID 1.1  

2006

November

June

6/30/2006 - OpenID Simple Registration Extension 1.0  

May

5/01/2006 - OpenID Authentication 1.1  

March

3/18/2006 - Yadis Discovery Protocol 1.0  

January

1/30/2006 - RSS Advisory Board Founded  

2004

October

10/04/2004 - IETF Publishes XMPP RFCs  

2003

October

10/15/2003 - XMPP Proven as a Standard for Instant Messaging Interoperability  

July

7/15/2003 - RSS 2.0 Copyright Deeded to Harvard  

7/09/2003 - XMPP Recognized as Instant Messaging Standard by Open Source Community  

2002

August

8/19/2002 - RSS 2.0 Authored by Dave Winer of UserLand  

June

6/11/2002 - IETF Announces XMPP Working Group  

2001

September

9/16/2001 - Scripting News is available in OPML 1.0  

2000

December

12/28/2000 - Josh Allen Releases an XSLT Processor for OPML 1.0  

12/25/2000 - RSS 0.92 Authored by Dave Winer of UserLand  

November

September

9/15/2000 - UserLand Releases OPML 1.0 Authored by Dave Winer  

1999

July

7/10/1999 - RSS 0.91 Authored by Dan Libby of Netscape  

RSS 0.91 included elements from Dave Winer's ScriptingNews syndication format.

March

3/15/1999 - RSS 0.9 Authored by Ramanathan Guha of Netscape  

1998

July