» Facebook disabled Robert Scoble’s account – ?because he was screen scraping contact or activity data [scobleizer.com]He’s under an NDA at the moment so can’t go into the details but he was running a script on the site that broke Facebooks’ Terms of Use. It looks like the account has been deleted taking with it all his data. This is why walled gardens are bad.

» Promoting ‘Data Portability’ standards [dataportability.org]As a result of Facebook’s decision to delete his account Robert Scoble has signed up to this. Which is good news. Data portability between systems is the key to Web 2.0. If you can’t point to a resource (outside a walled garden) and use it then it’s not a web 2.0 citizen. And if data is about you then you should have control – it is yours after al.

» Frameworks exist for conceptual integrity [204 No Content Blog]When someone uses a framework what they are doing is delegating decision-making to someone else – having too many options in this situation is a bad thing. Frameworks that give developers too many options hoping to maximise code reuse are misguided. Software reuse is not an end. Reuse is a means, and if the available means don’t meet your ends, then find other means.