Refer YouTube video clip below explaining Google Friend Connect BETA ... Does anyone notice any permsissions associated with sharing and connecting 'friend' data to the third party web site? Seems like you need to opt-in to join the guacamole recipe website - and you can send invites to friends ... but the permissions on adding friends and sharing friend data?

Food for thought ...

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 two video clips from Smashcut Media promoting Dataportability.org ... Nice work.

Let me apologize in advance for this essay, rather than blog. I’ll also post more entries on this topic over the coming weeks …

I toyed with two different titles for this blog. I settled on Go Big or Go Home – the other, Dataportability.org’s Standards Mashup is equally appropriate.

Dataportability.org, led by Chris Saad, has a big vision - boil the ocean big, not Texas big. The first victory has been to get the major players on board – Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Plaxo, SixApart, LinkedIn. The second is to garner support from the multiple tangential (and in some instances, competing) standards initiatives who can dogpile into this venn diagram intersect …

The “big three” however are announcing their own initiatives:

Facebook - Err, my bad. However, refer terms of use ... oh, and we have teams that look for this type of stuff (well, after the horse has bolted) ... Roll to the video and tell me you're comfortable putting personally identificably information on Facebook ...

Refer below for the YouTube version of the BBC article on their Hong Kong web site ...

Or, go to the BBC Web Site for the version that wasn't uploaded to YouTube Hong Kong.