Facebook and Google anounce that they are joining the
Data Portability Workgroup, a body advocating open standards allowing users of social web sites to easily move their data from one site to another. (This is not long after Facebook suspended Robert Scoble's account for attempting to, well, port his data from their site.) More interesting is who's Google's representative in this organisation: none other than
Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal and one of the originators of
OpenID, who more recently has turned his attention to
the social graph problem.