Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter Band Together For The Data Transfer Project
Four of the biggest technology companies are associating together to make it easier for the users to download and transfer their data between services.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter formally announced The Data Transfer Project (DTP) today, an open-source initiative to create new tools that ‘enable people to freely move their information across the web without any kind of hassle.
The Data Transfer Project is an open source initiative “dedicated to developing tools that will enable consumers to transfer their data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.”
With portability and interoperability as the goal, this reduces the problem of switching especially for people with limited data and then manually upload it to another product. W...