Hey folks,
Digg has joined the DataPortability Project, a group of websites cooperating to help you securely use your data however you want. Why? Because you own your data. It’s that simple. From the start, Digg has supported the idea that you own your own data.
Want to sync your Digg friends network with another service? We want to help you do that.
Want to use your Digg activity to get recommendations from another web site? We’re working on that, too.
Digg already supports many of the open standards that let you use your data on sites other than Digg, including RSS, OPML, and hCard. We use RDF to embed the Creative Commons public domain dedication into each page. Just this week, we added MicroID, which lets you prove to other services that you own your Digg user profile. We’ll be adding more open standards, such as OpenID, APML, OAuth, and XFN, in the coming months.
Check out the DataPortability site for more information. We’ll continue to give your data back to you in new, open, standard ways, so you can build a rich on-line life in ways we would never think of.
Thanks,
sbw