The high profile but heretofore loosely organized Data Portability Working Group announced last night that it has elected its first group of Steering Group officers . The Working Group strives to help user data become freed for secure re-use across different websites and services. The first chair of the Steering Group will be Daniela Barbosa , who is a Business Development Manager, at Synaptica, a Dow Jones company. Can the Data Portability Working Group overcome some early shakiness caused by the perception that it's all hype and no substance? The group got big press when Microsoft, Google, Facebook and many other companies publicly joined up - but critics allege that press is all that's been accomplished. Context The Working Group is really important. The work of the entire group, not just the most visible member and founder Chris Saad, has put the issue of data portability on a much larger public stage than it might have been on otherwise. DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut on Vimeo . That said, it's unclear how much additional work has been getting done there. The Open Web Foundation launched separately to be a place for developers to crunch code together in the same spirit as the Working Group. Many have questioned what the big players have done since joining the group. Saad and Barbosa point to data portability initiatives like Google Friend Connect, Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Availability ...
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The high profile but heretofore loosely organized Data Portability Working Group announced last night that it has elected its first group of Steering Group officers . The Working Group strives to help user data become freed for secure re-use across different websites and services. The first chair of the Steering Group will be Daniela Barbosa , who is a Business Development Manager, at Synaptica, a Dow Jones company. Can the Data Portability Working Group overcome some early shakiness caused by the perception that it's all hype and no substance? The group got big press when Microsoft, Google, Facebook and many other companies publicly joined up - but critics allege that press is all that's been accomplished. Context The Working Group is really important. The work of the entire group, not just the most visible member and founder Chris Saad, has put the issue of data portability on a much larger public stage than it might have been on otherwise. DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut on Vimeo . That said, it's unclear how much additional work has been getting done there. The Open Web Foundation launched separately to be a place for developers to crunch code together in the same spirit as the Working Group. Many have questioned what the big players have done since joining the group. Saad and Barbosa point to data portability initiatives like Google Friend Connect, Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Availability ...