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Google and Facebook have signed up to an alliance, DataPortability, which aims to unify identity and data management across various social-networking platforms.
According to its website, DataPortability exists “to put all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end data portability [and] to promote that design to the developer, vendor and end-user community”. Other organisations that have signed up include the social-networking sites LinkedIn and Plaxo.
“As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between, our chosen tools or vendors,” reads the founding “philosophy” on DataPortability’s website. “We need a DHCP [a protocol used in IP networking] for identity. A distributed file system for data. The technologies already exist, we simply need a complete reference design to put the pieces together.”
Details: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39292024,00.htm
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