“To all vendors who are tuned in, look for ways you’re keeping your users from managing their own data. The users are getting educated, fast. Better to be on the right side of this one. Facebook could easily be the place where the dam breaks. It’s attracting so many users, who may at some point realize that they want control of the data that’s locked up inside Facebook. Then vendors who have been on the right side of this issue will be the heroes.” (D. Winer)

Fred says, don’t hold your breath… most user’s don’t care. But he guesses that these concerns will influence developers to come up with new solutions. Toni Schneider makes a similar prognostication at the end of his recent interview on Wallstrip.

maybe the writing is on the wall…