The DataPortability Workgroup announced that morning that representatives from both Google and Facebook are joining its ranks. The group is working on a variety of projects to foster an era of goods Portability - where users can take their notes from the websites they use to reuse elsewhere and where vendors can leverage safe cross-site documents exchange for a whole new level of innovation. Good bye customer lock-in, hello to new privacy challenges.

whether things go right, today could be a very urgent day in the history of the World Wide Web.

The non-participation of Google and Facebook, two companies that hold more user info and do more with it than nearly any other consumer service on the market, was the biggest stumbling block to the viability of the project. These are two of the most fundamental companies in recent history - […]

Orginal post by Marshall Kirkpatrick