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Do ordinary users care about data portability?

Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller

13 Dec 2006

I was interviewed for an article by Steve O'Hear with Marc Canter (PeopleAggregator), Andrew Anker (Six Apart) and Tim Spalding (LibraryThing) about data ownership. This is something I care deeply about, and have written about before. It's excellent that the big web players are beginning to consider these issues.

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