Comments on: Dataportability: Did anyone ask the users? http://nicklothian.com/blog/2008/04/01/dataportability-did-anyone-ask-the-users/ My Blog, Take 4 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:56:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Cyndy Aleo-Carreira http://nicklothian.com/blog/2008/04/01/dataportability-did-anyone-ask-the-users/#comment-426 Cyndy Aleo-Carreira Fri, 02 May 2008 04:05:33 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=313#comment-426 The issue, and I'm pretty sure that it's been brought up more than once, is how much of that data is yours? Sure, you carry your contacts, but if you are talking about porting data out of Facebook, it probably also carries with it your birthday as well as other information beyond your name and email address. I'm sure there are some people who keep all the additional information in Gmail or Yahoo Mail, but in general, if it's a contact I need all pertinent information like IM names and snail mail addresses for, it's someone I contact frequently and have that on my laptop in my address book. There are some people who befriend the Scobles of the world, which ends up giving someone you may never have even had a direct conversation with all that information, which was how this whole thing started: with Scoble scraping all his data from Facebook into Plaxo and getting his account banned. If those users knew that information would be able to be exported and used for whatever, would they have friended him in the first place? There ARE issues here that will need to be addressed for any data shared pre-Data Portability. Well, if Data Portability ever gets implemented on any of these sites. The issue, and I’m pretty sure that it’s been brought up more than once, is how much of that data is yours? Sure, you carry your contacts, but if you are talking about porting data out of Facebook, it probably also carries with it your birthday as well as other information beyond your name and email address. I’m sure there are some people who keep all the additional information in Gmail or Yahoo Mail, but in general, if it’s a contact I need all pertinent information like IM names and snail mail addresses for, it’s someone I contact frequently and have that on my laptop in my address book.

There are some people who befriend the Scobles of the world, which ends up giving someone you may never have even had a direct conversation with all that information, which was how this whole thing started: with Scoble scraping all his data from Facebook into Plaxo and getting his account banned. If those users knew that information would be able to be exported and used for whatever, would they have friended him in the first place?

There ARE issues here that will need to be addressed for any data shared pre-Data Portability. Well, if Data Portability ever gets implemented on any of these sites.

]]> By: Polaris http://nicklothian.com/blog/2008/04/01/dataportability-did-anyone-ask-the-users/#comment-372 Polaris Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:30:18 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=313#comment-372 I'm not really sure I understand your point. When you move away from a network to another, you only bring your own data along, so it's all peace and light and yayness. I you move your blog from one place to another, you bring the comments along, but those who left them agreed to leave them in the first place. If you switch from gmail to yahoo, you carry over your contacts, so what ? Should someone accept mail from you@gmail and refuse it from you@yahoo ? I’m not really sure I understand your point. When you move away from a network to another, you only bring your own data along, so it’s all peace and light and yayness. I you move your blog from one place to another, you bring the comments along, but those who left them agreed to leave them in the first place. If you switch from gmail to yahoo, you carry over your contacts, so what ? Should someone accept mail from you@gmail and refuse it from you@yahoo ?

]]> By: Mike Reynolds http://nicklothian.com/blog/2008/04/01/dataportability-did-anyone-ask-the-users/#comment-367 Mike Reynolds Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:50:25 +0000 http://nicklothian.com/blog/?p=313#comment-367 Personal data is already portable. A person can easily export Gmail or Yahoo Mail contacts to CSV. Personal data is already portable. A person can easily export Gmail or Yahoo Mail contacts to CSV.

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