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cdave ([personal profile] cdave) wrote2009-07-13 01:54 pm
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Google fanboying: Data Liberation Front.

Googleblog 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:
  • 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.
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