Comments on: Facebook will allow you to export your friends list http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/ Nic Brisbourne's view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phillip Hofmeyr http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-1346 Phillip Hofmeyr Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:37:05 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-1346 Looking forward to seeing how Alan's point plays out. Nic, you say you're "not sure how this fits with OpenSocial". I am very eager to hear more on this topic as you learn more. Some have oversimplified this by saying OpenSocial allows apps to move from site to site whereas Dataportability allows data to move from site to site. Looking forward to seeing how Alan’s point plays out.

Nic, you say you’re “not sure how this fits with OpenSocial”. I am very eager to hear more on this topic as you learn more. Some have oversimplified this by saying OpenSocial allows apps to move from site to site whereas Dataportability allows data to move from site to site.

]]> By: Phillip Hofmeyr http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-11077 Phillip Hofmeyr Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:37:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-11077 Looking forward to seeing how Alan's point plays out. Nic, you say you're "not sure how this fits with OpenSocial". I am very eager to hear more on this topic as you learn more. Some have oversimplified this by saying OpenSocial allows apps to move from site to site whereas Dataportability allows data to move from site to site. Looking forward to seeing how Alan’s point plays out.

Nic, you say you’re “not sure how this fits with OpenSocial”. I am very eager to hear more on this topic as you learn more. Some have oversimplified this by saying OpenSocial allows apps to move from site to site whereas Dataportability allows data to move from site to site.

]]> By: nic http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-1327 nic Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:35:50 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-1327 Good point Alan. It will be interesting to see if they all mean it, or whether we will descend into the sorts of standards fudge we have seen in other areas of tech. Good point Alan. It will be interesting to see if they all mean it, or whether we will descend into the sorts of standards fudge we have seen in other areas of tech.

]]> By: nic http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-11076 nic Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:35:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-11076 Good point Alan. It will be interesting to see if they all mean it, or whether we will descend into the sorts of standards fudge we have seen in other areas of tech. Good point Alan. It will be interesting to see if they all mean it, or whether we will descend into the sorts of standards fudge we have seen in other areas of tech.

]]> By: Luke Razzell http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-1324 Luke Razzell Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:43:43 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-1324 We're certainly smiling broadly here at Blog Friends. ; ) We’re certainly smiling broadly here at Blog Friends. ; )

]]> By: Luke Razzell http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-11075 Luke Razzell Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:43:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-11075 We're certainly smiling broadly here at Blog Friends. ; ) We’re certainly smiling broadly here at Blog Friends. ; )

]]> By: Alan http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-1323 Alan Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:48:56 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-1323 Joining a standards workgroup is not at all the same thing as saying that Facebook will allow you to export your friends list, at least not anytime soon. It could just as easily mean that Facebook have joined to gain the PR benefit of seeming "open", only to monitor the workgroup's activity, and then slow it down to a crawl with various proposals and amendments until everyone has forgotten about the initial PR - this is a tactic widely used within other standards groups and could easily happen in this case, where all the major players are arch-competitors. Joining a standards workgroup is not at all the same thing as saying that Facebook will allow you to export your friends list, at least not anytime soon. It could just as easily mean that Facebook have joined to gain the PR benefit of seeming “open”, only to monitor the workgroup’s activity, and then slow it down to a crawl with various proposals and amendments until everyone has forgotten about the initial PR – this is a tactic widely used within other standards groups and could easily happen in this case, where all the major players are arch-competitors.

]]> By: Alan http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-11074 Alan Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:48:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/01/08/facebook-will-allow-you-to-export-your-friends-list/#comment-11074 Joining a standards workgroup is not at all the same thing as saying that Facebook will allow you to export your friends list, at least not anytime soon. It could just as easily mean that Facebook have joined to gain the PR benefit of seeming "open", only to monitor the workgroup's activity, and then slow it down to a crawl with various proposals and amendments until everyone has forgotten about the initial PR - this is a tactic widely used within other standards groups and could easily happen in this case, where all the major players are arch-competitors. Joining a standards workgroup is not at all the same thing as saying that Facebook will allow you to export your friends list, at least not anytime soon. It could just as easily mean that Facebook have joined to gain the PR benefit of seeming “open”, only to monitor the workgroup’s activity, and then slow it down to a crawl with various proposals and amendments until everyone has forgotten about the initial PR – this is a tactic widely used within other standards groups and could easily happen in this case, where all the major players are arch-competitors.

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