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The above basically means, use a common way of writing code and open up your data so other sites can use it.

Here are my quick thoughts on what the dataportability and the open social philosophy is gonna do and has already begun doing.

1) similar companies will die, the best will survive. this is great and will push business people to come up with creative ideas rather than making copies (stop recreating digg please). It encourages businesses to think strategically and complementary. i.e. how can i leverage your product? (see some examples here, mashups and twitter apps) Thus, we will see an increase in complementary products and a decrease in substitutes (i.e. more peanut butter and jelly, less brands of peanut butter).

2) more companies will also partner up. if our code can work together, then we will buy each other out and make 1 product that works well instead of 4 products that suck (i.e. friendfeed.com, streem.us, tumblr.com, and soup.io).

3) there will be less businesses. the ease of entry is not always a good thing. What has happened here is that we have way too many websites and a lot of them suck. I waste hours surfing the net (i kinda get paid for it tho) and it’s totally inefficient. I mean, goddamn! there are a lot of websites out there.

BOTTOM LINE: It’s time that we all get real and clean up the fing internet.