Ellen Leanse @chep2m asked me about details of why I was worried about data portability, so I wrote this technical note on my blog - http://tinyurl.com/437zv9 - Mitchell Tsai

Robert Scoble's original discussion [Sat 5/10/08] http://friendfeed.com/e... http://tinyurl.com/6l6azb - Mitchell Tsai

David Recordon's @daveman692 "MySpace's Data Availability is not Data Portability" [O'Reilly - 5/9/08] http://tinyurl.com/5a7wc6 http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Nick Lothian @nlothian provided a link to "Tribe may be changing the FOAF settings due to harvesting by ex.plod.us" [2/29/08] http://foaf.tribe.net/thread... - Mitchell Tsai

Marshall Kirkpatrick writes " Flickr's New Friend Finder: Data Portability or Privacy Violation?" [Read Write Web - 4/1/08] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... and "Google Friend Connect Tries to Strangle the Social" [Read Write Web - 5/12/08] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... - Mitchell Tsai

dbrowell writes "I want packages of my identities as signals and signs, like a group of hung shingles outside a mainstreet. If I post on a blog I’d like it to be clear that I have a Twitter ID, Facebook, etc. But linking to that personal ID village and literally having my ID village follow me like a redundant Verizon commercial is NOT what I want." as a comment on Ellen Leanse's "MicroPost: Data Portability…what’s in it for me?" [5/13/08] http://tinyurl.com/5htpyr - Mitchell Tsai

Google's Friend Connect [Google Blog - 5/12/08] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008... Photos by Niall Kennedy @niall http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Carolyn McCarthy writes "Welcome to the social mess?" [Webware - 5/12/08] http://www.webware.com/8301-1_... Saad characterized the Facebook, Google, and MySpace announcements as "internal brands that are technically the beginning of a data portability play." All three companies have representatives in the DataPortability Workgroup, even though none of the week's announcements were developed in conjunction with the group. - Mitchell Tsai