Data Portability: LinkedIn Now Allows You To Export Your Data
Posted by Sebastien on the 2008/01/05 at 06:31
in Data, Data Portability, FaceBook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Robert Scoble, Social Media, Social networks -
Big storm this week in the blogosphere as Robert Scoble’s Facebook account was temporarily suspended for breaking the site’s terms of service. He was using a new tool from Plaxo Pulse that was extracting and matching Plaxo and Facebook users. As Robert said: “I wanted to get all my contacts into my Microsoft Outlook address book and hook them up with the Plaxo system, which 1,800 of my friends are already on.” Scoble was eventually reinstated but the debate about data portability now rages on (see also