Breaking News: Google, Facebook & Plaxo Join the Data Portability Workgroup

@duncanriley said he was working on a big post last night, and this is it. Via techcrunch:
After publishing an invitation to Facebook to join the DataPortability Working Group January 4, we never thought that Facebook would accept it. Today changes everything you’ve ever thought about social-networking data and lock-in before, because today Facebook, Google and [...]

I’ll Take My Profile To Go

Facebook deleted Robert Scoble’s profile because he was running an automated script to export his contacts. This is today’s big story…….or is it?
The real story here is data portability. It’s an issue that has been bubbling up under the surface with the rise of social networking. When you spend the time creating a network of [...]

The Beacon: Clever or Creepy?

Today is apparently “Beacon Day” in Wurreyville. I was going to post today (and don’t worry, still will tomorrow) a fun little write up of “Best Holiday Gifts to Buy the Geek in Your Life,” but got sidetracked by a day-long obsession with the Facebook Beacon. It dominated today’s CustomScoop’s PR Blog Jots, and I [...]

What Do You Think Of Company Pages On Facebook?

I may have done a 180 in less than 24 hours. Yesterday I had a conversation in which I declared having a company page in facebook “lame.” I thought back to Larry Weber’s talk at the last Social Media Breakfast in which he told the story of his daughter who told him “Dad, Coke just [...]