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Google Takeout Lets You Easily Export From Circles

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the step-in-the-right-directions dept.

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."

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  1. Re:what exactly is the point of this? by aug24 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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:

    The idea isn’t that they want you to transfer your data away from Google — they just think it’s important that you can

    Hear, hear!

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  2. Re:what exactly is the point of this? by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Re:what exactly is the point of this? by samkass · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  4. Re:Openness during use by rednip · · Score: 3

    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.

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  5. Re:Wait, Circles? by DragonWriter · · Score: 3, Informative

    They changed the name from Google+ that quickly and quietly after announcing it?

    No, Circles is one of three major components of Google+ (the others being Hangouts and Sparks.)