http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/948/all xx http://www.itworld.com/internet/65405/after-early-fame-dataportability-project-matures The DataPortability Project tasted early fame in January 2008 when an indignant Robert Scoble joined the group after Facebook canceled the tech celebrity's account for exporting his friends list to Plaxo. The Scoble incident highlighted the problem of data lock-in among social-networking sites and thrust the young DataPortability Project, quietly created in November 2007, onto center stage. In this interview, Project cofounder Chris Saad shares the latest accomplishments and plans of the DataPortability Project. http://www.itworld.com/internet/65405/after-early-fame-dataportability-project-matures#comments Internet Interview data portability Facebook MySpace social networking Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:08:43 -0400 ITworld staff 65405 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/64523/myspace-enhances-data-portability-system MySpace is adding support for the open standards OAuth and OpenID. http://www.itworld.com/internet/64523/myspace-enhances-data-portability-system#comments Internet News data portability MySpace OpenID social networking standards Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:32:16 -0400 ITworld staff 64523 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/63997/data-control-console-released-social-networking-users A startup is tackling the data portability program with a central console for users to manage their social networking identity. http://www.itworld.com/internet/63997/data-control-console-released-social-networking-users#comments Internet News data portability social networking Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:20:48 -0400 ITworld staff 63997 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/58819/facebook-google-launch-data-portability-programs-all Google and Facebook separately announced the general availability of their respective data portability programs on Thursday. http://www.itworld.com/internet/58819/facebook-google-launch-data-portability-programs-all#comments Internet News data portability Facebook Google social networking Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:18:03 -0500 ITworld staff 58819 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/53733/myspace-eases-data-portability-policies-adopts-openid Two well-known Web sites have completed implementations of MySpace's data portability program, which has also been modified to allow a degree of user data caching and storage by external Web sites and to support the OpenID single sign-on method, MySpace announced Monday. http://www.itworld.com/internet/53733/myspace-eases-data-portability-policies-adopts-openid#comments Development Internet News data portability MySpace OpenID social networking web services Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:32:12 -0400 ITworld staff 53733 at http://www.itworld.com