Web Worker Daily

There has been a lot of buzz lately around the term data portability.  Recently web heavyweights such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Plaxo, and other online identity providers have been joining the Dataportability.org organization, but it’s unclear to most people what Data Portability is all about.  This video seeks to explain the concept in layman’s terms.  We encourage you to spread this video to your web working colleagues because of all the potential benefits data portability provides.

We’ve told you before about the pluses of having an online persona.  I’m sure many of you want to have online personas, but the time involved might be too daunting.  For example, who has time to keep Facebook, MySpace, Plaxo, and Twitter up to date; and have any time to actually get project work done?  To keep these services relevant to your professional life, they must be kept up to date.  This is where data portability comes in to the equation.

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