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."

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Re:what exactly is the point of this?

[aug24]

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!