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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday July 23 2018, @10:51AM (1 child)
-sword?
What I hate the most about the password prompts I dismissed dozens of times each day is that they grab the focus, leading everything else in the UI to be unresponsive.
I filed a bug report [apple.com] about these incessant password dialogs. One of Apple's people told me how to stop them but his suggestions didn't work.
I don't see why I can't just download everything onto my box. Why do I have to throw my personal documents up in the sky where all of Apple's datacenter employees can see them?
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 23 2018, @04:33PM
act like a slave and you will get treated like a slave.