Some interesting things are happening in Web2.0 land. There has been quite the dustup, started by Facebook kicking Richard Scoble off, because he’d violated the Facebook terms of service. As a result, Scoble joined the group dataportability.org, which I’ve been monitoring for a few months now. Why did Scoble get booted (he has since been reinstated)? Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse.
I think people are finally realizing that the current state of affairs – where we can pump data into Facebook and other social networks, but not get data out of them, is untenable. There’s a poll on mashable.com, where the sentiment is most certainly heavily in favor of Facebook opening up the social graph.
So after my brief lapse, I’m going back to my promise: no more social networks until the data flows both ways, and I can take my social graph with me.
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Not only should you be able to take it, you should be able to remove copies at places such as Facebook or Plaxo when you leave.
Agreed, totally!