BOB SHARE

Data Liberation Front

We insert our data in 3rd party service
For eg: email, documents and pictures
As our data grows we become tied to 3rd party service

Imagine this, thousands of emails in your mailbox but dont like the service.
If you switch the mail provider you lose access to thousands of emails
Else stuck with the bad provider
Its just like not being able to take your belongings from the apartment you have leased

Data Liberation Front


Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Googles products.
Goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.
Designed to help you liberate your data from any Google service with as little pain as possible
Youre not locked into Gmail, for example, just because all your old email is there.

Three questions before starting to use a product that will store their data:
Can I get my data out in an open, interoperable, portable format?
How much is it going to cost to get my data out?
How much of my time is it going to take to get my data out?
The ideal answers to these questions are:
Yes.
Nothing more than Im already paying.
As little as possible.

Currently supports export of data in:
Buzz
Contacts
Google+ Stream
Picasa Web Albums
Profiles
Voice

Data Liberation Front
BOD, Eric Schmidt at that time CEO of Google
“How do you be big without being evil?  We dont trap end users. So if you dont like Google, if for whatever reason we do a bad job for you, we make it easy for you to move to our competitor.”
Limitation
Work in progress
Doesnt support all products
No support of import of data

Download the ppt slides for Data Liberation Front presentation from here.