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There's been a lot of talk over the last few months about the idea of data portability. Because let's face it, as useful as services like Facebook, Plaxo, and LinkedIn can be, the last thing you want to do when signing up for a new service is enter a few hundred names and email addresses that you've already entered somewhere else.
Many services will do a decent job of importing your contacts from another application, say Gmail. But there's no universal standard, which means that there could be some information missing, or if you have a LinkedIn contact that's not in your Google address book, how do you import them into your Facebook account?
Microsoft this week announced partnerships with LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo, and Facebook. Each company has agreed to let users import their contacts using the Windows Live contacts API.
At first glance, the last company we would have expected to propose an answer is Microsoft. The company has a long history of trying to lock users into its own software and services. But the more we think about it, the more it makes sense. Microsoft has also launched Invite2Messenger, a service that makes it easier to invite members of each social network to be your Windows Live Messenger contacts. In other words, if you don't have a strong social network of your own to promote, why not partner with a bunch of popular services in an effort to promote an area where you're already strong: instant messaging.
Many services will do a decent job of importing your contacts from another application, say Gmail. But there's no universal standard, which means that there could be some information missing, or if you have a LinkedIn contact that's not in your Google address book, how do you import them into your Facebook account?
Microsoft this week announced partnerships with LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo, and Facebook. Each company has agreed to let users import their contacts using the Windows Live contacts API.
At first glance, the last company we would have expected to propose an answer is Microsoft. The company has a long history of trying to lock users into its own software and services. But the more we think about it, the more it makes sense. Microsoft has also launched Invite2Messenger, a service that makes it easier to invite members of each social network to be your Windows Live Messenger contacts. In other words, if you don't have a strong social network of your own to promote, why not partner with a bunch of popular services in an effort to promote an area where you're already strong: instant messaging.
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It's not a surprise. Microsoft has at least been open lately. Take for instance their Live API's (which I've 'heard' were better to work with than Google's), SDK's, CodePlex, joining Dataportability.net and OpenID, FeedSync, WWT, Popfly and Silverlight platform, IE8 going to web standards platform, dev.live.com, Live Gallery Devcenter, and a lot of other things people would consider open.
And there probably will be a 2-way street. Probably each of those sites has a way of importing to the other, though I guess there could be exporting to others as well. It would still work the same way.
It's great to see the web more open. Much easier to move your info. I just hope all this "openness" that people are striving for, will be safe and secure enough to avoid bad guys from getting into our data. Being too open can be kind of a danger, right?
And there probably will be a 2-way street. Probably each of those sites has a way of importing to the other, though I guess there could be exporting to others as well. It would still work the same way.
It's great to see the web more open. Much easier to move your info. I just hope all this "openness" that people are striving for, will be safe and secure enough to avoid bad guys from getting into our data. Being too open can be kind of a danger, right?
A Microsoft acordou para a realidade. Se calhar um pouco tarde. Tem um grande número de novos serviços "open". Codeplex do tipo code.google. O próprio Silverlight.
Mas o que mais gosto na Microsoft é mesmo o C# e a plataforma .net. O visual Studio Pro é o melhor IDE que alguma vez trabalhei e possivelmente o melhor no mercado. É caro, apesar de eu o ter de graça pela universidade.
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