- Yahoo! killed off Geocities and gave people notice and a graceful exit
- Facebook strengthened its privacy plans but restricted your ability to take your addressbook with you
- Startups entered the social backup, personal data store, and VRM segments
- Governments are improving access to citizen data through APIs and apps
- The Project... [read more]
We'll recap 2010 and plan for 2011. This year:
- Yahoo! killed off Geocities and gave people notice and a graceful exit
- Facebook strengthened its privacy plans but restricted your ability to take your addressbook with you
- Startups entered the social backup, personal data store, and VRM segments
- Governments are improving access to citizen data through APIs and apps
- The Project launched 1.0 of the Data Portability Policy and http://PortabilityPolicy.org