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Friday, August 15, 2008

Science-related social networking sites and data portability

Euan Adie, Data portability for scientific web apps, Nascent, August 11, 2008.

Having the ability to share one network (or a particular subset thereof) of friends and contacts across different social networking sites is a good idea. It has been kicking around for a while and it's a feature Nature definitely wants to support in its social software. ...

We've been thinking quite hard about how we could enable this (as well as debating whether or not we should do anything before a wider standard is developed). ...

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