Hot on the heels of Twitter affirming that yes, you own your tweets, some Chicago Google engineers have launched “The Data Liberation Front,” with the goal of making it simple to move your data in and out of Google products (Blogger, Gmail, and more, with additional services coming soon). Enhancing options for data portability is [...]
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Google makes it easy to move data out of Google products
Published by September 14th, 2009 in Google and Social Media. 0 CommentsWhy Chrome OS doesn’t make much sense
Published by July 12th, 2009 in Google, Linux and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsI was a bit surprised with Google announced they were going to be creating a lightweight Chrome OS for use in netbooks. But is it “doomed”? This article at Slate says “yes,” and I’m inclined to agree, mostly for this reason, as the author writes: Sometimes there’s a logic to this. It made sense for [...]
Google to release own browser, “Chrome”
Published by September 1st, 2008 in Google, Technology and Web/Internet. 3 CommentsGoogle’s throwing a wrench into the IE vs. Firefox vs. Safari vs. Opera browser dynamic with it’s own offering, Google Chrome. They explain their reasoning behind the project in a very slick comic drawn by “Understanding Comics” creator Scott McCloud, in which they state they’re looking to create a browser for the way people use [...]
