Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data back

Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data... by hcarvalhoalves on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @01:18PM (#3859069)

Being able to download a blob != having your data available.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data... by 27182818284 on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @03:01PM (#3859652)

I would actually contest for the majority of Facebook users the current download is what most users think of when they here "download your data." It is blob-like, but after unzipping you can actually start just clicking and opening files. CSV, &c are nice for programmers, but not the general public.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data... by ramblerman on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @05:30PM (#3860327)

I think the sentiment went over your head.

Useful applications will pop up soon enough if they make truly open apis and downloadable data. He's not suggesting google/facbook actually implement the statistics themselves. In fact the opposite, because that would still mean the data was closed.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data... by Bjartr on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @01:40PM (#3859206)

What does == having your data available?

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data... by jmathai on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @03:49PM (#3859876)

See my comment here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3859864

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data... by laconian on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @03:02PM (#3859661)

Being able to take that data and move it to another service?

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