Archive for the ‘Data Portability’ Category
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
In February Microsoft made an announcement that it was striving for more openness in its products and was even promoting data portability. Well, some people didn't buy into this announcement, thinking Microsoft was just appeasing EU regulators.
Today Microsoft announced that it was co-operating with social networks LinkedIn, Facebook, Hi5, Tagged, ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
While some people regard recent talk about data portability just as hype, it can't be denied that the underlying technologies of it gain some more, well deserved attention already. One of those technologies are microformats, especially hCards and XFN.
So it is no wonder that Danish web application Zyb has added ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Just in time for the O'Reilly Social Graph Foo Camp this weekend, Google has released its Social Graph API. The API accesses publicly available pages and checks for relations between them.
Relations
Relations in this case are basically just some simple links between two or more websites, though they have to be ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
It is January 30, 2008, the tech blog world is enamoured with the idea of data portability and related standards like OpenID and OAuth. At least that is my impression when reading blogs these days. But maybe I am wrong and it is just a feverish dream? I am confused ...
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