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Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter Announce Data Transfer Project

posted by martyb on Monday July 23 2018, @06:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the so-meta dept.

takyon writes:

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project

Today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter joined to announce a new standards initiative called the Data Transfer Project, designed as a new way to move data between platforms. In a blog post, Google described the project as letting users "transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it."

The current version of the system supports data transfer for photos, mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks, drawing from publicly available APIs from Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, Remember the Milk, and SmugMug. Many of those transfers could already be accomplished through other means, but participants hope the project will grow into a more robust and flexible alternative to conventional APIs. In its own blog post, Microsoft called for more companies to sign onto the effort, adding that "portability and interoperability are central to cloud innovation and competition."

Also at 9to5Google.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 23 2018, @07:22AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 23 2018, @07:22AM (#711094) Journal

    Where the fuck is the ISO? Standards, people?

    I looked for it behind the "XML and family" specifications, couldn't find it.
    Really, is ISO required to have a standard specification? Besides, the ISO does NOT guarantee patent unencumberance [wipo.int] of any standard specification.

    We do not need proprietary ass-rapers making deals about data interoperability. Seriously. NO, Seriously.

    That's gonna happen no matter how not-for-profit the steward of a specification is, no matter if ISO or any other.
    See the W3C in regards with Encrypted Media Extensions [w3.org]

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