I do support this option/statement. We should provide all means necessary to make data travel, query and aggregate wherever we as users want that. Disclosure: I’m involved in a SIOC-project (the last project on the list).

DataPortability.org, web standards, SIOC and FOAF: “In the image, Bob holds user accounts on various social websites (two shown for clarity, but here’s another view), and via those accounts he creates content items (usually within containers of some sort, e.g., in a bookmark folder, personal weblog, message board or image gallery) on those sites. He should be able to port not only his social graph (in this case, his connections to Alice and Carol), but also his personal containers / sets of content items and perhaps even associated comment replies.”

The WebCamp on the Social Network Portability is collocated with BlogTalk 2008 in Cork.

This weeks starts well. Just got the notification about an accepted project proposal. The Austrian netidee, a project of the Internet Privatstiftung Austria had its second call out.

I submitted a project that aims to create a generic PERL exporter for SIOC - an Semantically Interlinked Online Community ontology. The results will be open sourced along the lines of the call.