Comments on: Myspace and Facebook make Data Portability moves – lots more work to be done

By: MySpace // Facebook | myoon

MySpace // Facebook | myoon — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:13:41 +0000

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By: Steve Holcombe

Steve Holcombe — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:29:04 +0000

Chris,

I just finished reading ‘Standardization: A Failing Paradigm” by Carl Cargill (Senior Director of Corporation Standards at Sun Microsystems) and Sherri Bolin (The Bolin Group).

It is a concise, twenty-three page history of standardization efforts in the computer and telecommunication industry leading up to 2004 but nonetheless instructive of what is happening today in the ‘dataportability’ tussle between Facebook, Google, etc.

While the title sounds dire, it actually provides specific solutions to the problem. Since you are knee-deep in these same issues, I highly recommend that you print out a copy and read it on your next plane flight.

Here’s a link:

http://pardalis.squarespace.com/storage/assets/2004_standards_cargill.pdf

Good luck!

By: Forget Facebook « Paying Attention

Forget Facebook « Paying Attention — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:19:27 +0000

[...] as stated before, none of these plays are true ‘DataPortability’ implementations. But they are important [...]

By: David Novakovic

David Novakovic — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:47:44 +0000

Doing it close enough to get media attention and good PR, but bad enough to still force people to use them sounds awfully familiar….

*sniff* *sniff* ah yes, like good old times – the 90’s.

The fact that the same tactics are still being employed is kinda depressing. On the other hand, it makes success so much sweeter.

Hopefully the small players will be able to keep the big ones accountable