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Facebook, Google launch data portability programs to all

Google and Facebook separately announced the general availability of their respective data portability programs on Thursday.

posted by ITworld staff | News | Internet | 12/04/08 at 8:18 pm | data portability, Facebook, Google, social networking


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MySpace eases data portability policies, adopts OpenID

Two well-known Web sites have completed implementations of MySpace's data portability program, which has also been modified to allow a degree of user data caching and storage by external Web sites and to support the OpenID single sign-on method, MySpace announced Monday.

posted by ITworld staff | News | Development | Internet | 07/22/08 at 12:32 pm | data portability, MySpace, OpenID, social networking, web services


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