PUBLIC MARKS with tag "portabilité des données"

Founder of world wide web says some of the most successful social networking sites 'have begun to chip away at its principles'

Backup, Export, and Manage your Online Data Your company has important data locked up in cloud-based applications. Backupify provides daily automatic backups, archiving, and export for all your social media and SaaS data.

What would you lose if your Gmail, Flickr or Facebook were deleted? Do you have all of your photos and important emails backed up? Or would you lose them forever? If your photos, emails, documents, blog posts, friends lists etc are important to you, you should be keeping a copy of this information offline.

At a regular pace, we hear about social networks catastrophes. One of the last example is the bookmark service Magnolia which has lost all data from its users. Some people who have subscribed to their own RSS feed of bookmarks have recovered their data. Social networks catastrophes are of a different types and with different consequences, but often revolve around personal data. These data can be "fully" private to completly public with a lot of granularity in between (an opacity defined by shades).

Data portability is the ability for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications. The DataPortability Project works to advance this vision by identifying, contextualizing and promoting efforts in the space.