Who Owns Your Social notes? You Do, Sort of

eweekhickins writes “Mad about Facebook’s treatment of Robert Scoble? ‘The view for society to move their social graph from one service to other is a fabulous benefit,’ Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales told eWEEK. ‘To me, it’s a benefit to customers. folks should be very wary about services

that are uptight about that kind of thing in an

effort to lock you out of the customer.’ The problem is that while the profile info may be yours and yours alone, your address book contains the names and e-mail addresses of your friends, family and business contacts. So who owns the notes?”

Read more of that story at Slashdot.

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