[governance] social media platforms interop specs (was Re: PRISM - is it about the territorial location of data or its legal ownership)

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

On 25-Jun-2013, at 16:24, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> But I cannot similarly join the community of Facebook users without
> using the service of Facebook Inc. and agreeing to the TOS that comes
> with it: The standardized interoperability interfaces that would be
> needed for that don't exist.
> 

Well, to some extent - you can send an email to joeuser at facebook.com and have it arrive as a private message.  He can then reply to that private message and the response will land in your inbox, without your having to use a facebook account.

Beyond that - no, these weren't generally designed to be interoperable, and while the bits and pieces exist, this isn't a unified messaging type of platform.

--srs
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