Google fanboying: Data Liberation Front.
Jul. 13th, 2009 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cdaveGoogleblog posted a list of all the Google Twitter accounts, which included something I'd not run across before.
A team working towards data portability. Twitter seems to be their main public presence; they don't have a central website.
Their goals are:
To that end they have been pushing for existing data in Google to get import/export functionality, and building tools to make it easier to transfer entire blogs between providers.
A team working towards data portability. Twitter seems to be their main public presence; they don't have a central website.
Their goals are:
- Liberate data across web services.
- Make that data portable across cooperating web services.
- Allow users to own their own data which is submitted to the Cloud.
- Do anything else to allow users to have fine-grained, easy access, and control of their data.
To that end they have been pushing for existing data in Google to get import/export functionality, and building tools to make it easier to transfer entire blogs between providers.
