Archive for the ‘Data Portability’ Category

Microsoft Introduces Contacts API

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, ...

Zyb Adds Microformats

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 ...

One More Step to Open the Social Graph

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 ...

Is Giving away Passwords cool Again?

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 ...