Data portability is going to become a significant discussion. People are becoming more aware of the hassles of multiple profiles on multiple sites...as well as the concerns about who has ownership of the data. Dataportability.org is introduced in a short video here. I'm generally a big fan of tying pieces together and reducing duplication. But, data portability has its concerns as a concept. I like having bits of my identity in different sites. I share and provide details to different services based on trust and frequency of use. I imagine in a structured, connected system, I will be able to control what I share. But there is a bit of (false) security in knowing that a system only knows me by what I've actually entered in the profile, not by the pieces I chose to reveal from a central profile.
Posted by gsiemens at January 18, 2008 12:02 AM | TrackBack