Since yesterday’s announcements from Google and Facebook (a couple of hours apart) that they would both make their social ID standard available to all sites, the (micro)blogosphere has been quite active to look at the merits of each solution and try to predict who will emerge victorious. Social data standards are paramount to TRAACKR and [...]

Tags: api, facebook, facebookconnect, google, openID, standards

Traackr has been on the forefront of advocating for the standardization of users’ social data – see our article from a few weeks ago about this. The calls for standardization have gotten a lot of traction this week, starting with MySpace announcing on Thursday they will join the DataPortability project and partner with eBay, Yahoo, [...]

Tags: api, ebay, facebook, google, linkedin, myspace, socialdata, socialnetworks, standards, traackr, twitter