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Published by Jarred on May 12, 2008 in Data Portability, Facebook, Google, Privacy, Social Networks and Web 2.0. View Comments

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[Disclaimer: Though MySpace also launched a data portability initiative last week (including announced partnerships with big players such as eBay and Twitter), I think MySpace is kind of a big, ugly, irrelevant joke. Sure it has lots of members and gets a lot of traffic; call me biased, but it seems to me more like some kind of freaky conglomeration of the mainstream media, advertisers, Rupert Murdoch and 14-year-olds. But if you really want to, you can read more about "MySpace Data Portability" here.]

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Published by Jarred on April 29, 2008 in Computing, Google, Privacy, Search and Web 2.0. View Comments

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Published by Jarred on April 24, 2008 in Advertising, Facebook, Google, Privacy, Social Networks and Web 2.0. View Comments

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I may have wandered a little off-topic there, but I believe Facebook Chat is the first step in a slow revolution in social networking as we know it. The graph is going real-time on the web, and it will soon become real-time in our pockets.

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