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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: data-portability</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/data-portability.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-02-09T20:46:53+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Quoting Chris Messina</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Feb/9/microformats/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-02-09T20:46:53+00:00</published><updated>2009-02-09T20:46:53+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Feb/9/microformats/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;blockquote cite="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/02/06/where-does-data-go-when-it-dies/"&gt;&lt;p&gt;When APIs go dark, how do you do a data backup? (Answer: you often can't.) With public, microformatted content, there will likely be a public archive that can be used to reconstitute at least portions of the service. With dynamic APIs and proprietary data formats, all bets are off.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="cite"&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/02/06/where-does-data-go-when-it-dies/"&gt;Chris Messina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apis"&gt;apis&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/archiving"&gt;archiving&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/chris-messina"&gt;chris-messina&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-portability"&gt;data-portability&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microformats"&gt;microformats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="apis"/><category term="archiving"/><category term="chris-messina"/><category term="data-portability"/><category term="microformats"/></entry><entry><title>Skillswap goes Portable</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Nov/21/skillswap/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-11-21T10:25:56+00:00</published><updated>2008-11-21T10:25:56+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Nov/21/skillswap/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://icanhaz.com/skillswapgoesportable"&gt;Skillswap goes Portable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Skillswap Brighton will be addressing OAuth and Data Portability on Wednesday. I’m annoyed to be missing it.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/brighton"&gt;brighton&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-portability"&gt;data-portability&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/events"&gt;events&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/oauth"&gt;oauth&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/skillswap"&gt;skillswap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="brighton"/><category term="data-portability"/><category term="events"/><category term="oauth"/><category term="skillswap"/></entry><entry><title>Quoting Chris Messina</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/May/12/portability/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-05-12T08:13:13+00:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T08:13:13+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/May/12/portability/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;blockquote cite="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/05/11/thoughts-on-dataportability/"&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think there's a great danger that, as a result of framing the current opportunity around "data portability", the story that will get picked up and retold will be the about copying data between social networks, rather than the more compelling, more future-facing, and frankly more likely situation of data streaming from trusted brokered sources to downstream authorized consumers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="cite"&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/05/11/thoughts-on-dataportability/"&gt;Chris Messina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/chris-messina"&gt;chris-messina&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-portability"&gt;data-portability&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/social-network-portability"&gt;social-network-portability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="chris-messina"/><category term="data-portability"/><category term="social-network-portability"/></entry><entry><title>The real roadblocks to data portability on social networks</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/26/real/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-03-26T19:53:52+00:00</published><updated>2008-03-26T19:53:52+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/26/real/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://scobleizer.com/2008/03/26/the-real-roadblocks-to-data-portability-on-social-networks/"&gt;The real roadblocks to data portability on social networks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
A bunch of smart questions posed by Facebook’s Dave Morin. This is why I think data portability is the wrong framing—moving data between sites is really hard. Importing social relationships between sites is much more viable (hence my interest in social network portability). Also, the complaints about systems sharing e-mail addresses are neatly addressed by using OpenID as the GUID for a user instead. OpenIDs can’t be spammed.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-portability"&gt;data-portability&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dave-morin"&gt;dave-morin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/facebook"&gt;facebook&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/guid"&gt;guid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid"&gt;openid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/portablesocialnetworks"&gt;portablesocialnetworks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/robert-scoble"&gt;robert-scoble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="data-portability"/><category term="dave-morin"/><category term="facebook"/><category term="guid"/><category term="openid"/><category term="portablesocialnetworks"/><category term="robert-scoble"/></entry><entry><title>Quoting Dare Obasanjo</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/4/dare/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-01-04T14:56:39+00:00</published><updated>2008-01-04T14:56:39+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/4/dare/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;blockquote cite="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/01/03/FacebookRightScobleWrongSocialNetworkInteroperabilityAndTheOReillySocialGraphFOOCamp.aspx"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The data portability folks want to make it easy for you to jump from service to service. I want to make it easy for users of one service to talk to people on another service.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="cite"&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;a href="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/01/03/FacebookRightScobleWrongSocialNetworkInteroperabilityAndTheOReillySocialGraphFOOCamp.aspx"&gt;Dare Obasanjo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dare-obasanjo"&gt;dare-obasanjo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-portability"&gt;data-portability&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/portablesocialnetworks"&gt;portablesocialnetworks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="dare-obasanjo"/><category term="data-portability"/><category term="portablesocialnetworks"/></entry><entry><title>DataPortability.org</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/3/dataportabilityorg/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-01-03T16:49:57+00:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T16:49:57+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/3/dataportabilityorg/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://dataportability.org/"&gt;DataPortability.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
“Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors.”


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-portability"&gt;data-portability&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/portablesocialnetworks"&gt;portablesocialnetworks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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