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Data Portability - The Next Step in Unifying Communication
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- 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?
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- 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
- Type:
- Panel
- Event:
- SXSW Interactive 2009
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