‘Data’ Category Archive

June 12th

Google Friend Connect Disabled By Facebook

by Scott Karp  |   View Comments

Google is taking a big shot at Facebook in the PR war over data portability and social network interoperability. I signed in to Google Friend Connect, implemented on the Go2Web2.0 blog, and saw this:

Normally, you wouldn’t list a service that isn’t a partner, but in this case Google chose to list Facebook and let users [...]

May 17th

Dear Web Applications: Where Are My Files?

by Scott Karp  |   View Comments

What’s wrong with the “friends connection” programs announced by Facebook, MySpace, and Google? Many people have been trying to explain the principle of data portability as if it were a new concept, but it’s actually not. It’s been on our PCs for years.
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January 5th

Data And The Future Of The Web

by Scott Karp  |   View Comments

After I asserted several times that data is the key to the future of the web, Umair Haque gave my head a good spin by asserting that data is in fact a commodity. Umair is half right — we are increasingly overrun by data, and SOME of it is a commodity. The commodity data is [...]

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