The Data Portability Movement

Social networks have become an integral part of most of our lives and anyone who has created and maintained multiple social networks understands how frustrating and time consuming it can be. If you’re like me you have hundreds of contacts on one social network and haven’t had the time to add those contacts to your other social networks. Imagine a world where all of your contacts would follow you from social network to social network. Imagine being able to maintain new contacts and user profile information for all of your social networks from one simple authentication point. Impossible right? Maybe not. Enter the Data Portability Project. Its mission is to put all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end Data Portability. To promote that design to the developer, vendor and end-user community.

To accomplish this daunting task the Data Portability Group has coordinated some of the biggest players in social networking, among them: Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and the newest member of the workgroup Digg.

For more information check out this video.