Archive for May 14th, 2008

Data Portability Gets a Boost from Social Networks

Posted 14 May 2008 | By | Categories: Industry News, Social Media | 157 Comments

There’s a certain catch-22 in social media: everyone wants to use the thing that everyone else is using. Critical mass is, well, critical. But getting to that critical mass from nothing is the tricky part. Such has been the fate of OpenID, the essence of which is the idea that people should share their login [...]