“Social network Facebook announced Friday the debut of Facebook Connect, a new technology for members to connect their profile data and authentication credentials to external Web sites. It makes the company the latest major Web site to embrace the concept of data portability.”

It appears I’m behind the times in hearing about this, but this is great news for data portability. Hot on the heels on MySpace, Facebook has announced that users will be able to share their online identities with other sites, moving away from its current walled-garden approach Article on News.com, here.

Posted Sunday, May 11th, 2008 @ 8:04 pm
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