Will Facebook Completely Open Up?

Posted by Nick O'Neill on January 8th, 2008 1:24 PM

Marshall Kirkpatrick just broke the story that both Facebook and Google have now joined the Data Portability workgroup. The workgroup’s is mission is to make our personal data “discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors.” Facebook has previously refrained from enabling sites to import personal user data. Even applications on the Facebook platform are not allowed to store personal data related to users.

Comments (2 Responses)

Tim Courtney - January 10th, 2008 at 6:07 pm

I really would like to find a way to get all of my FB friends' AIM screen names off of FB so I can add the ones of my choice to my AIM client. I tried FriendCSV, but it doesn't export AIM screennames. Anyone know how to do this?

Tim Courtney - January 10th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

I really would like to find a way to get all of my FB friends’ AIM screen names off of FB so I can add the ones of my choice to my AIM client. I tried FriendCSV, but it doesn’t export AIM screennames. Anyone know how to do this?