On: Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny

[natrius]

Describe a social network with user-friendly privacy controls that doesn't fall under your definition of "walled garden".

[tedunangst → natrius]

One with a link that says "Click here to download all your data."

[nailer → tedunangst]

I know Facebook API and could make that without too much effort. Do you think the demand is there? What format would users want such data in?

[jotto → nailer]

they're getting closer but they're not there yet. they have an API method in beta that allows you to pull the last 50 posts of a user's mini-feed, and then you can grab comments for each post in the mini feed, but that's not going to get you all user contributions.