Facebook To Particls: What IS Your Data Portability End Game?
Here we go again? Another Internet “bombshell” is in the works? OMG, Microsoft is shrewdly keeping its social eyes and ears open by agreeing to evaluate the “work” of Chris Saad’s pet project, DataPortability.org?
What does Saad’s Australian startup Faraday Media’s Particls’ “personalized aggregation” tool REALLY get out of the DataPortabilty.org agenda he is non-stop “evangelizing,” in the United States, supported by pre-announcements, via two preferred, hand picked third-party blogs (ReadWriteWeb/TechCrunch–this time though, Faraday Media was apparently “out exclusived” itself, much to the chagrin of ReadWriteWeb!), of Data Portability Workgroup “announcements,” in lieu of DataPortability.org communicating the “news” of new “members” directly to the public itself?
I have been asking here at Insider Chatter and “member” Facebook has apparently been wondering as well.
Facebook is ”evaluating what [data portability] really means,” according to a Facebook statement provided the Financial Times, adopting a “wait and see” approach.
Faraday Media’s Chris Saad–the man behind DataPortability.org–continues his non-transparent goings on by pre-briefing a Microsoft “member” announcement to blogger co-promoters in lieu of making a public, open, direct, clear communication himself at DataPortability.org. While Saad evangelizes a spirit of Data Portability “openess,” Saad’s evangelism of his own Faraday Media product roadmap supporting “data portability” project is nevertheless an amalgam of promo pitches that continue to leave the public in the dark as to how Faraday Media’s ”sponsorship” of DataPortability.org supports the business objectives of Faraday Media itself.
Chris Saad IS DataPortability.org, literally, according to the DataPortability.org “Contact Us” button. Faraday Media, of which Chris Saad is the founder, is the sole sponsor of DataPortability.org. according to DataPortability.org. Faraday Media’s company blogs–Particls and Engagd–host Chris Saad’s belated DataPortability.org new “member” announcements.
What is the end game of Chris Saad’s Faraday Media? To be the “epicenter of the attention ecosystem,” Saad boasts. Sounds like a (business) plan, thanks in no small part to his DataPortability.org. High profile “members” of DataPortability.org, however, are NOT as easily impressed as blogger fans are!
LinkedIn’s far from ringing comittment to Saad’s Faraday Media “vision”:
It makes sense that we would support efforts like DataPortability.org and Social Network Portability. We’re happy to share what we’ve learned along the way with the community and look forward to learning from the experience of others.
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