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Facebook, Google and Plaxo join Dataportability Group
Facebook, Google and Plaxo are joining the Dataportability Group, a body which is working on projects designed to enable users of social networks to transfer data from one network to another. Within the group, Brad Fitzpatrick will represent Google, Facebook's representative will be Benjamin Ling - who runs the network's app platform, while Plaxo will be represented by Joseph Smarr, who runs the platform.
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The news implies that the social network users will no longer be locked into one network: people will be able to export their contact lists from one network to another. Facebook's entry to the group is particularly significant, as of all the major networks it has been the most reluctant to open up. Recently, it refused to join Google's OpenSocial platform, which is designed to create a single standard for apps so that they can be placed on many different networks easily, unlike its rivals Bebo and MySpace. In addition, last month it disabled the account of tech-blogger Robert Scoble, after he exported his contacts graph from the social network.
With Facebook joining Dataportability, commentators think it is only a matter of time before its rivals join up as well. The Dataportability Group is an organisation that argues for the diffusion of a universal standard for data sharing.
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