Digg Joins Data Portability Group
Posted by James | Filed under Code, Future, Geek, Privacy, Semantic, Web
Digg made a post to the company’s blog yesterday announcing their officially joining the DataPortability.org Working Group. Digg follows Facebook, Google, Microsoft and many other companies in getting on board to discuss protocols that will make it easier for users to move their data around the web, whilst still protecting their privacy.
The company posted more specifics about its embrace of data standards than almost any of the other participating companies has. "Digg already supports many of the open standards that let you use your data on sites other than Digg, including RSS, OPML, and hCard," wrote Digg’s Steve Williams. "We use RDF to embed the Creative Commons public domain dedication into each page. Just this week, we added MicroID, a Microformat that lets you prove to other services that you own your Digg user profile. We’ll be adding more open standards, such as OpenID, APML, OAuth, and XFN, in the coming months."
Tags: data, dataportability, digg, open standards, Privacy, standards
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