The Startup Bus to SXSW Interactive 2010 is now rolling south by southeast. “12 strangers will board a bus in San Francisco. At 60 miles an hour and over 48 hours, they will conceive, build and launch 3 tech startups in time for a SXSW party in Austin.” Can you bootstrap a company and squeeze in a decent portability policy? The Bus startups will try. The DataPortability Project wants to make your …  Read More →

I sat down with the DataPortability Project ’s Elias Bizannes a few months ago to organize the elements of a model portability policy . Your site’s portability policy will be part of your Terms of Service or End User License Agreement. Your portability policy should help your sites and services communicate the data portability parts of your relationship with the people who use them and your business partners. I’m heading down...