Tag: LOCK-IN

Just say no to data lock-in! That's what Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at San Francisco's Web 2.0 conference earlier this week. "If you look at the historical large company behavior, they ultimately do things to protect their business practices or monopoly or what have you, against the choice of the users," Schmidt said. "The more we can, for example, let users move their data around, never trap ...

We've talked about data lock-in before, that sorry state when a web service won't give you your data in a useful, standard format. del.icio.us, I am happy to observe, is no such web service, and by way of proof I direct you to 11 ways to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks. In addition to the obvious—export HTML or XML—you can backup to Gmail or straight to a MySQL database, safe them to ...