http://www.socialtimes.com/2007/11/the-social-web-is-web-30/ The Social Times covers news, analysis and insight pertaining to the social web. Learn how to brand yourself and your company via the social web. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:05:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.socialtimes.com/2007/11/the-social-web-is-web-30/#comment-56 Dan Lester Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:10:28 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/2007/11/the-social-web-is-web-30/#comment-56 So far, OpenSocial is not about data portability - it is about portability of applications across social networking sites. Standardising the way apps communicate with those sites will help standardise the protocols used by the social graph, however. And as you suggest, sites supporting OpenSocial will be in a better position to make their data portable as the standard evolves to cover 'profile' portability. So far, OpenSocial is not about data portability - it is about portability of applications across social networking sites. Standardising the way apps communicate with those sites will help standardise the protocols used by the social graph, however. And as you suggest, sites supporting OpenSocial will be in a better position to make their data portable as the standard evolves to cover ‘profile’ portability.

]]> http://www.socialtimes.com/2007/11/the-social-web-is-web-30/#comment-4992 Dan Lester Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:10:28 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/2007/11/the-social-web-is-web-30/#comment-4992 So far, OpenSocial is not about data portability - it is about portability of applications across social networking sites. Standardising the way apps communicate with those sites will help standardise the protocols used by the social graph, however. And as you suggest, sites supporting OpenSocial will be in a better position to make their data portable as the standard evolves to cover 'profile' portability. So far, OpenSocial is not about data portability - it is about portability of applications across social networking sites. Standardising the way apps communicate with those sites will help standardise the protocols used by the social graph, however. And as you suggest, sites supporting OpenSocial will be in a better position to make their data portable as the standard evolves to cover 'profile' portability.

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