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»I wish that applications that manage contact information (from Outlook to Palm organizers and cell phones to Apple's Address Book) would stop making Roach Motels, and make it easy and consistent to share data. There's usually export and import, but it has all kinds of selective lacunae designed to keep the user locked in. I'm thinking that as we move into the next decade, we're going to find more and more of our data locked up in application data stores that others control, that companies are going to find that keeping their users' data is a good way to keep their users locked in, and that as a result, we're going to end up with a "free data" or "open data" movement analogous to today's open source movement.«