Data Portability is a service used by most major social networking sites in order to offer their users with better data bridge and making the users to fill in less number of forms by getting information from other websites like Photobucket,Yahoo!, eBay & Twitter into Myspace. Now the two major players Facebook & Google are going to announce ‘Facebook Connect’ & ‘Google Friend Connect’ respectively. DataPortability is the option to share or move your personal data between trusted applications and vendors.
Facebook is soon going to announce the launch of ‘Facebook Connect’ which is a service using which their current users can share their data with other websites from their profiles, following which google is join the revolution with ‘Friend Connect’ which uses Dataportability in order to pull data into 3rd party websites and applications.
Lets wait and watch what these data portability features in social networking websites will result in and which of these websites gain the most out of it.
will this happen with orkut also ?