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Social Networks & Portability

Earlier this week, during Marc Canter’s panel at LeWeb, I asked whether we could get a first step on all the social networks toward true social graph portability (which probably won’t happen because it’s too complex to do, because there are too many privacy rules, and because companies aren’t likely to give up their lockin anytime soon — imagine being able to drag all your information along with all of that of your friends from Faceb

Eric Schmidt Talks User Portability of Data

WEB 2.0: Google CEO: Take your data and run - Network World One of the things that all internet companies need to do a better job on is in ensuring that our users have portability of data. So it was refreshing to read this morning that Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, was talking up user portability today.

Canada Wants Cellphone Portability

The United States has had wireless local number portability for some time now. Canada wants it too.