Comments on: Your Data or Google's? Some Small Progress http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/09/your-data-or-googles-some-small-progress/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: netZoo ~ WOOZradio » Google and YOU http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/09/your-data-or-googles-some-small-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-690 netZoo ~ WOOZradio » Google and YOU Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:42:19 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/09/your-data-or-googles-some-small-progress/#comment-690 [...] Personally, I’d hate to be skeptical, but it’s a very reasonable question, especially as Dan Gillmor warns in response to this GOOG profile by Network World: Google wants to make the information it stores for its users easily portable so they can export it to a competing service if they are dissatisfied, the company’s CEO said Tuesday. [...] [...] Personally, I’d hate to be skeptical, but it’s a very reasonable question, especially as Dan Gillmor warns in response to this GOOG profile by Network World: Google wants to make the information it stores for its users easily portable so they can export it to a competing service if they are dissatisfied, the company’s CEO said Tuesday. [...]

]]> By: Seth Finkelstein http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/09/your-data-or-googles-some-small-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-689 Seth Finkelstein Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:19:39 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/09/your-data-or-googles-some-small-progress/#comment-689 I am more cynical about Google's motives here: <a href="http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001093.html" rel="nofollow">Data Export Means Data *IMPORT*</a> I am more cynical about Google’s motives here:

Data Export Means Data *IMPORT*

]]> By: Luis http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/09/your-data-or-googles-some-small-progress/comment-page-1/#comment-688 Luis Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:51:40 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/09/your-data-or-googles-some-small-progress/#comment-688 It generally does, though; you can get your gmail out over POP (which for a long time was a pay service at other free email providers); you can get your calendar out over ical; you can easily switch email addresses and forward with gmail (try forwarding your yahoo mail anywhere- good luck); you can get everything out of google docs (well, the writely half) as open standard .odf files. It generally does, though; you can get your gmail out over POP (which for a long time was a pay service at other free email providers); you can get your calendar out over ical; you can easily switch email addresses and forward with gmail (try forwarding your yahoo mail anywhere- good luck); you can get everything out of google docs (well, the writely half) as open standard .odf files.

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