“History may only rarely be written by the losers, but it is always written by the writers.” -- David Weinberger

Can we start with the premise that Scoble’s recent problems with the Facebook “customer corral” were all about him and have little to do with “data portability?” When Plaxo asked him if they could experiment with screen scraping his 5,000 friends’ email addresses, grabbing the Facebook image of each email address and then translating it [...]