Introduction

On this episode I sit down with Chris Saad the co-founder of Data Portability.org  Since being founded about 6 months ago, one of Data Portability’s primary goals was to ‘develop a narrative‘ for data portability.  The group that has proven to be extremely effective in generating a ton of publicity.  The topic was actively discussed at SxSW and Web 2.0 expo over the last few months.  It is also worth pointing out as Chris acknowledges, that Data Portability certainly stands on the shoulders of a lot of great technology developed over a much longer time such as OpenID and various Microformats.

Regardless, Data Portability is moving onto other goals and one of my favorite parts of the interview is after  Chris comments on what they have accomplished in the last 6 months, I get him to completing the following statement: “if we don’t do ____ in the next 6 months, I’ll be disappointed.”  Listen to see how he fills in the blank.  All in all, I think it’s a good discussion and hope you enjoy it as well.

 

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Links

• DP Website
• 6 Month Report
• Chris’ Blog

Note: Transcription will be live later in the week

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