Comments on: Data Portability is Not a Right

By: Data Portability is Boring

Data Portability is Boring — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:14:17 +0000

[...] portability is a hot topic in the Web 2.0 community. I’ve previously weighed in with my opinion: data portability is not a universal right and the value a company may [...]

By: What’s With All the Love? : The Drama 2.0 Show

What’s With All the Love? : The Drama 2.0 Show — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:51:24 +0000

[...] I’m all about the sell. She’s obsessed with data portability, I think data portability is bullshit. She dreams about giant, pulsating tag clouds, I dream about upgrading from my 80-foot yacht to a [...]

By: Drama’s Roundup - January 11, 2008 : The Drama 2.0 Show

Drama’s Roundup - January 11, 2008 : The Drama 2.0 Show — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:01:11 +0000

[...] take solace in the fact that things are going great in the world of Web 2.0. That’s right, data portability is gaining steam with more and more great companies joining the DataPortability Work Group. Pay no [...]

By: Drama 2.0

Drama 2.0 — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:33:20 +0000

Kenya is the codename for Microsoft’s open social networking platform. It’s supposed to blow OpenSocial out of the water. Don’t tell anyone I told you.

By: Alex Linhares

Alex Linhares — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:23:54 +0000

What is Kenya? More importantly, can I get my data out from it? Do you know of any tool to do it? If not, let’s build the darn thing!

By: Drama 2.0

Drama 2.0 — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:31:30 +0000

“The point is that it is time for web-based apps to compete on service, not on data.”

No offense Chris, but I think, at best, you’re being overly idealistic, and at worst, downright naive. We’re talking about businesses here, not charities. Businesses compete in lots of ways and expecting that all of them will decide to throw away certain competitive advantages because they have some sort of imperative to compete on “service” instead is ridiculous. This is the real world, not a utopia. And while being user-centric can sometimes be good for business, the real world is first and foremost money-centric.

I also stand by my assertion that most users probably care a whole lot less about data portability than Silicon Valley geeks. That is, if they even know what “data portability” is.

By: Chris Saad

Chris Saad — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:53:48 +0000

The issue is not if DataPortability is good for Facebook, but rather if it is good for end-users. Because in a user-centric world users need to come first.

The point is that it is time for web-based apps to compete on service, not on data.