By Nick O’Neill

I came across Andrew Chen’s post arguing that Metcalfe’s law is “a DIRECT reason why these networks want to get as big as possible, and have a social graph that’s as comprehensive as possible, and why they should ultimately be opposed to Data Portability.”

Andrew is echoing my original thoughts that I posted [...]

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This weekend has been a weekend of data portability discussion among a number of blogs. It has become a hot button topic for a few of us. On Saturday, I even turned against some of the data portability evangelists. I still stand by a lot of what I said including the fact that data portability [...]

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When Data Portability was first announced, it sounded like it would solve what had become one of the biggest problems in the social networking space: a seemingly endless array of new services, each of which required you to setup and maintain your own profile, friend’s list, photo albums, etc. With the support of just about [...]

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There has been a ton of discussion surrounding data portability in light of Facebook’s decision to bow out of Google Friend Connect and go it alone with their own service. Mike Arrington accurately argues that data portability is the new walled garden. The current race for social networks is to open up their platforms so [...]

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Along with launch partners Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter, MySpace has announced “Data Availability,” an initiative to allow users to share their profile data across all of the sites that they visit. By all signs, this means we’ll have an actual, tangible implementation of Data Portability up and running within the next few weeks.

Specifically, Amit [...]

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