Facebook responded quickly to MySpace Data Availablity (partnering with Yahoo!, EBay and Twitter) ...

Refer link to Facebook Develepers, "Announcing Facebook Connect" by David Morin on Friday May 9th at 12:32pm.

Expect a lot of discussion around who has the most Dataportability compliant effort ... The battle lines will be drawn over data ownership, access and privacy ... Refer first article from David Recorden (Open Platforms Tech Lead at SixApart) entitled "MySpace's Data Availability is not Data Portability" over at O'Reilly Radar ...

Let the games begin.

Refer video below on The Google Privacy Channel. In short, it demonstrates the issues that Google and the Internet community are struggling with ... notice how many times Peter Fleischer (Google's Global Privacy Council) goes out his way to explain new advancements in the first half of the video and how they apply only to "unauthenticated search" ... meaning, if you logged in to GMail of any of the other Google products, this doesn't apply ...

Ofcom (Office of Communications - the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries) released a research document entitled Social Networking - A quantitative and qualitative research report into attitudes, behaviours and use. The full report can be found at: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/medlitpub/medlitpubrss/socialnetworking/