Someone’s gonna to the dirty work for Data Portability
Image via WikipediaData Portability is just plain cool. It’s basically the ability to enter all this soical networking data you have to punch in at each stop and move it from site to site. Most people agree this is a noble cause – but there just wasn’t anyone stepping up to the plate to “get ‘r done”.
Welcome Open Web Foundation. RedWriteWeb had a post Thursday talking about it.
A new nonprofit organization called the Open Web Foundation is launching this morning with backing from some of the biggest companies on the web and the involvement of some of the web’s most innovative individuals. Organized in as a decentralized community of developers, in the fashion of the Apache Software Foundation, the OWF will serve as a placeholder for all the legal dirty work that needs to happen in order for data portability to become a reality.
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