There's been plenty of talk about data portability over the past few weeks, what with Facebook taking issue with a Plaxo script that imported user data from one social network to the other. But the ...

Momentum appears to be building behind the related notions that users should have a single set of login credentials to sign into most—perhaps even all—of the web sites that they frequent and that they ...

Google and Facebook have signed up to an alliance, DataPortability, which aims to unify identity and data management across various social-networking platforms. According to its website, ...

The DataPortability Project tasted early fame in January 2008 when an indignant Robert Scoble joined the group after Facebook canceled the tech celebrity’s account for exporting his friends list to ...

DataPortability.org (actual tagline: "Sharing is Caring") announced today that representatives from three Silicon Valley companies are joining the DataPortability Workgroup, a group whose nominal ...

After being threatened by Red Hat because its original suitcase logo was too close to theirs, the DataPortability workgroup decided to hold a contest for a new logo, which anyone could vote on. Now ...

Over on the Open Web Foundation mailing list Eran Hammer-Lahav who, despite his gruff and disagreeable personality, I respect greatly for his work in the development of open standards, is effectively ...

As I write this, the interwebs are kicking off with the news that Plaxo, Facebook, Google and Robert Scoble have joined the DataPortability.org Workgroup. I can hear the cries already. First up Mike ...

The DataPortability Workgroup founded in November 2007, is aiming to develop best practices towards letting users move, share, and control their identity, photos, videos and all other forms of ...

Khris Loux and Chris Saad became friends because of the Next Web. During all the meetings they noticed they generally had the same interest and ideas. Not that those shared interests matter though, ...

Australian web attention expert Chris Saad is on a mission: he wants a complete reference design to combine technologies that make it possible for users to share their personal data between chosen ...