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Google is on the good path, showing to FaceBook what should be a fair policy about data interaction. All datas in Google exportable, data liberation project team is aware of this, providing APIs to all the services of Google to extract at any time any data stored in Google services. It is not the case of other mayor players like FaceBook from which any data entered couldn't be exported, the most important being the social graph. Users should not accept this.

Think you know what work might look like in the future? Zoho's evangelist (and guy who setup their data center) Raju Vegesna shows me how he can gather data from the Internet, process it in a spreadsheet, and build a report -- all within minutes using Zoho's free services. Oh, and all while he could be collaborating with coworkers from around the world on live data. This is a new way to work and it's pretty exciting to think about how cloud-based technologies like Zoho's suite of applications will change how we'll work

The cross-section of HR and more mathematical / data - based approaches and social networking platforms bring interesting and perhaps controversial angles to the space that we are discussing: "... The chart looks like colorful pop-art doughnuts flying through space. The message, though, is anything but playful. Based on a mathematical analysis of work at an undisclosed Internet company, each circle represents an employee. Those who generate or pass along valuable information within the company are portrayed as large and dark-colored. And the others? "On a relative scale, they don't add a hell of a lot," says Elizabeth Charnock, chief executive of Cataphora, the Redwood City (Calif.) company that carried out the study for a client. The upshot for managers faced with a mandate to downsize: Small and pale circles might be a good place to start cutting."

Kimind is business partner of Backupify, and we are very please of this announcement. Backupify is a very important add-on solution for Google Apps, providing and extra layer of security to be sure you will never loose any data, even if one of your users is deleting it on purpose or accidentally. Backupify will allow you to retrieve any information from gmail, calendar, contacst, docs and sites, at any time. And having Symantec on board is a very impressive signal for the reliability of the company in long term.

This is really very good service when using FireFox. I'm using FireFox sync from inception (formerly weave), it works graat. Now you can retrieve all your data in your iPhone, it's tremendous!

La Maison Blanche s'ouvre au Cloud Computing pour réduire ses dépenses IT A noter que le lancement de data liberation a eu lieu le même jour

Google se fait donc juge et partie pour la question de la rétention des données.

C'est une démarche importante de la part de Google, et fondamentale pour l'avenir du cloud computing. Et donc pour l'adoption ou non par les entreprises du concept