I’d personally like to welcome Matthew Rothenberg (Flickr), Blain Cook (Twitter) and Steve Ganz & Jim Meyer (LinkedIn) to the DataPortability.org discussion.

To quote Steve Ganz on the LinkedIn blog:

“LinkedIn is committed to helping professionals be more productive in their everyday work life. These technologies are among the powerful tools that enable us to do this. So it makes sense that we would support efforts like DataPortability.org and Social Network Portability. We’re happy to share what we’ve learned along the way with the community and look forward to learning from the experience of others.”

I look forward to working with all the individuals involved in the group to tell the technical, political, legal and user experience story of Data Portability.

The announcement is also covered here:

Read/Write Web
Techcrunch
Techmeme
LinkedIn blog