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In the fourth espisode of the DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast, Phil Wolff, editor of Skype Journal, and Eran Hammer-Lahav, author of the XRDS-Simple specification join hosts Trent and Steve.

Leading the episode, we touch on a few news nuggets:

1. TechCrunch Donates $6,625 to the DataPortability Project
2. DataPortability Project Logo Competition Update
3. Will data portability be a battle like free software?

Flowing out of the news, Phil chats briefly about his discussions with folks about how data portability will impact advertising. Similar to VRM, as we learned in our previous discussion with Joe Andrieu, it seems clear that businesses and consumers will benefit from standardized portable data.

Working toward making data more portable, Phil also talks about the DataPortability “Do It Yourself” projects he and David Recordon bandied about at a recent meetup in San Francisco. While it’s still getting off the ground, he’s working to formalize a number of small projects that can easily be implemented.

Our feature discussion is with Eran Hammer-Lahav about the XRDS-Simple specification he recently authored. He leads us through the history from his time working on the oAuth specification, and how the simplification of XRDS is complementary to other easily-implemented discovery techniques.

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Episode Length: 0:51:37