Dataportability - your identity, contacts & content wherever you go

Alright so this is not a pure Symbian related post, but still very much interesting for all users of the web and online services. Dataportability is a project which aims to make us the users, our photos, videos and other forms of personal data discoverable by and shared between our chosen tools and vendors. That means no more registering and adding details to YouTube, Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, Flickr etc. Once you’ve entered the data, uploaded your photos or videos it’s there, available and ready to be recycled. Don’t waste your time adding friends or content, spend your time creating content.

Video: Dataportability, connect, control, share, remix

The technologies already exist, we simply need a complete reference design to put the pieces together. Sounds like one of those nice internet ideas that never end up in anything real huh? No not really, just take a look at the things that have been achieved so far:

10 Nov 2007	Dataportability project is founded
8 Jan 2008	Google, Plaxo and Facebook announce membership DataPortability Workgroup
10 Jan 2008	LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr and Six Apart join the DataPortability Workgroup
5 Jan 2008	Mozilla CEO indicates interest in joining DataPortability
24 Jan 2008	Microsoft Joins Data Portability Project
29 Jan 2008	Digg Joins the DataPortability Project

Things are looking good. If Nokia is to establish themselves as a Internet Service company they need to start thinking data portabilty and make things right from the beginning. Read more about the Dataportability project on the official webpage, dataportability.org.