Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Liberate Your Data From Google - Google Takeout.
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Do you know that you can take your data out from the Google whenever you want? You can easily take out your data from various services of Google with the help of the feature called Google Takeout. This feature is possible because of The Data Liberation Front.It is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products.
It is a great service provided by Google which you can access by loging in with your Gmail username and password. Click here to try Google Takeout. After signing in you can then easily take your data out of several Google services. It supports Buzz, Contacts and Circles, Picasa Web Albums, Profile and Stream, but Google promises support for more services and products later on.Once you recover your data then you are able to save it in open formats so that you can import and use it with other services.
Google Takeout is a great service which enables you to take your data with you whenever you like and also use it with other services. Google with this feature might want send a message how much they care about the user data and privacy. This might be a plus point for google to keep its new product Google+ a way step ahead than Facebook.
If you want to liberate your data using Google accounts rather than www.google.com/takeout, then go to the account settings tab. There you will see DATA LIBERATION option.Click there and choose a service or download all of your data as per your wish.
See the video to know about Data Liberation Front.
This post was written by: MOHIT BASKOTA
Mohit baskota is a computer Engineering student at NIT,Jaipur.A tech enthusiast and a FOSS advocate with interest in photography.Follow him on Twitter
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