Web2.0: removing the lock-in

Dave Winer comments on Google Calendar and says that he does not want change his current setup. Basically he is locked into Yahoo! Maybe we should think of Web 2.0 as being no longer locked in to certain Internet Services. Isn't it the way how the event data is stored? I assume that when everything was publish in an ical format, any service could use this as basis, whether this is an Internet MicroContent service or a MicroContent Client. Maybe this requires the publishing of the data in ical format. What is left is the problem with URLS's. You do want to give everyone a new URL, when you change calendar services. Then we the calendar services will only compete on their interface (and Winer might move to Google) and no longer on owning the data. By the way I am surprised that Winer lets himself get locked in.

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