LinkedIn, SixApart, Twitter and Flickr join Data Portability Working Group

Fri Jan 11 2008, 09:04 AM

LinkedIn, SixApart, Twitter and Flickr are all joining the Data Portability Working Group (DPWG), following Google, Facebook and Plaxo's move earlier this week. LinkedIn Senior Web Developer Steve Ganz, SixApart OpenID manager David Recordon, Twitter Platform Developer Blain Cook and Flickr Product Strategy and Management executive Matthew Rosenberg are all pledging to work with the DPWG. They will attempt to aid its development of data transfer systems between social networks, with their companies expected to add physical support to the project if the working group produces viable solutions. The companies all say they are proponents of free data sharing between social networks and hope that the DPWG will be able to devise software and hardware solutions that will allow users to have transferable identities and data that can be easily shared between sites.

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