SXSW 2012 - Data Portability - The Next Step in Unifying Communication

Data Portability - The Next Step in Unifying Communication
Event	SXSW Interactive 2009
Format	Panel
Organizer	Shervin Pishevar – Social Gaming Network
Description	Last year it was Widgets. This year’s hot topic: Data Portability. Three major players in the social networking space announced competing approaches to making profile and friend data portable in 2008: First MySpace Data Availability followed by Facebook Connect and lastly Google Friend Connect. With all of these competing APIs, what does this mean for the users? For the developers?
Questions Answered	What is Data Portability? How does it affect the social network audience? Where is it working today and how well is it actually working? What does it mean to the uber-networker who is on multiple platforms? Someone has to host all the user data – who will it be? What will developers have to adjust in their process when they are creating applications? Will cross-platform applications be easier to create? Will users spend more or less time on the social networks? Metrics, scalability, tracking and interacting - who will own the numbers if the numbers all change? What does Data Portability do for monetization?
Level	Intermediate
Category	Community / Social Networks

Data Portability - The Next Step in Unifying Communication