Facebook has finally joined the DataPortability Workgroup

Duncan Riley, one of the Techcrunch writer has just announced that Facebook has really joined Google and Plaxo to the DataPortability Workgroup. A surprising news since Facebook previous choice was to stay within a very closed standards.

"The DataPortability Workgroup is actively working to create the ‘DataPortability Reference Design’ to document the best practices for integrating existing open standards and protocols for maximum interoperability (and here’s the key area) to allow users to access their friends and media across all the applications, social networking sites and widgets that implement the design into their systems."

More to come about this new "volte face".