Digg Joins DataPortability, Will Support OpenID

Digg has just announced that they have also joined the DataPortability Workgroup, adding to a laundry list of companies in the Web industry who have signed on to work together towards allowing you to own your data and take it with you to other sites.

In a blog post this morning, the company writes:

“Want to sync your Digg friends network with another service? We want to help you do that. Want to use your Digg activity to get recommendations from another web site? We’re working on that, too.”

Additionally, the post indicates that the company will soon support OpenID, though it’s unclear if that means you’ll be able to login to Digg using OpenID, or if they’ll simply join a long list of companies including Yahoo and AOL that are allowing you to use your credentials from their respective services to login on other sites.

All of this sounds good to me. As we now know, most of the main players are already in on DataPortability, including Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn. Mashable readers were fairly split in a recent poll where we asked whether DataPortability was all hype or the next big thing:

Welcome, Digg. Now let’s see what happens.