Friendconnect & OpenSocial implications

As users, we do not want to be locked in the many social networking sites we are part of. But our social network is the asset that makes these sites valuable. In fact, at the moment, the network that we build in one site cannot be exported/shared/used in another one.

Google has proposed Friendconnect & OpenSocial to facilitate data portability and give the ability to move our network wherever we go. Of course, this has a profound implications and promise to change status quo, and not everybody is happy about it.

See these nice posts from Techcrunch: Facebook’s Glass Jaw and Facebook’s Friends Data Has Already Left the Barn

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