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Google Takeout Lets You Easily Export From Circles
An anonymous reader writes "If you ever wanted proof that Google's recently-launched Circles social network is angled as the antithesis of Facebook, check out Google Takeout. Produced by the Data Liberation Front, Takeout lets you export all of your data from Circles, Picasa, and Buzz in open formats that can then be imported into other, competing services."
I was hoping that Google Takeout would let me easily eat Chinese food for lunch today =\
I upload photos from my current phone. I used to upload from my old phone. Sometimes from my real camera, via my macbook.
I'd quite like to have all my statuses and discussions easily convertable to a journal.
I think an export/import facility should be standard, normal, required functionality.
FTA:
Hear, hear!
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
it's not like facebook is holding a master copy of my data and not like there are any competitors to facebook right now
There are other social networks... LinkedIn, MySpace, Classmates, Flickr, Last.fm, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.
If there was a service where I could keep all of my data up-to-date in a single place and then update the other sites periodically, that might appeal to me. Especially if it were done in a nice way. Facebook is a good "general" site, but Flickr is better for photos and Last.fm is better for music and MySpace is better for flipping out your browser with crappy Javascript. My point is that if there were a "general" site like Facebook that could act like a central repository feeding (and receiving from) the specialty sites, that might be something worth using.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Circles are the friend lists of Google+. They form the basis of it. yeah, I wish Google Takeout had something to do with food too...
You can request all your data from Facebook anyway under "Account Settings->Download Your Information". I did... it takes several hours to a day and then you get an email with a download path to all the data you've ever put on Facebook.
E pluribus unum
That's why the next big social network will have to be open sourced, as it's the only way that service providers could standardize. Otherwise we will be in a world where most people depend on one company who 'owns' your most important data in it's own format and those that don't can't communicate as well.
The force that blew the Big Bang continues to accelerate.
Fortunately it's not Facebook that changed to Circles.
Otherwise, to avoid being put down by the copyright army, we'd have to refer to circular shapes as poligons with an freakishly large number of sides. Or with the shorter, albeit somewhat harder to pronounce, PFLNS.
And it would take a lot of effort to remake the Lion King to include the hit song "The pfln of life".
No, Circles is one of three major components of Google+ (the others being Hangouts and Sparks.)
Not true. It does not include comments you've posted on others' walls, on groups etc.