Google Takeout

Google Takeout: https://www.google.com/takeout

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:40:42 GMT

Source: adachis.kinja.com --- Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Google Takeout: https://www.Google.com/Takeout You still have to download but I believe it'll make the migration a little less painful since it retains metadata (I think—I haven't tried it with YouTube before). ...

Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 02:43:01 GMT

Source: rachelbythebay.com --- Saturday, June 08, 2013
[Hey! If you don't want a movie from 28 years ago to be spoiled, avert your eyes and scroll down to the picture of two guys, then start reading from there.] Perhaps you've seen the movie "Real Genius" from 1985. There's a lot of stuff which happens, but the important part is that a couple of college kids wind up building a laser with a ridiculous amount of power output. It takes them a while to get it right, but when it works, it's more destructive than they ever imagined. When it fires, it goes through the steel target, a brick backing wall, some kind of shade over the window, the window itself, and then flies out into the open. It cuts through a tree and a statue and winds up putting a flaming hole in a billboard some distance from campus. The students go into the burger joint under the billboard to celebrate their accomplishment. That's when the scary-smart weirdo who's been living under the school shows up, and he's not excited. It's quite the opposite, really. He's rather concerned. He basically asks them what the point of a system would be. It destroys anything it reaches, it can only fire for a short period of time, and it requires an immense amount of power. The students say it's up to the engineers to figure it out. They don't care. He suggests something further: what if the use already is known? It might be used to vaporize a human target from space. All you'd need is a large spinning mirror. They freak out and run back ...

Import starred.json from Google Reader's Takeout [updated]

Sat, 25 May 2013 20:56:54 GMT

Source: theoldreader.uservoice.com --- Saturday, May 25, 2013
Within the zip file that Google's Takeout provides there is a starred.json file available. i think lifehacker mentioned a way of turning them into HTML to make them bookmarks but his does not "gel with current workflows". I have no idea if in implementing googles reader api this comes as part of it - that is if you do implement their api. Maybe feedburner will be terminated after reader is shutdown so here is two website with a list of alternatives: http://socialmediatoday.com/gsosk/925386/best-feedburner-alternatives http://blog.crazyegg.com/2012/10/12/alternatives-to-feedburner/ Vincent Fumo said: I created a java app to make an RSS feed from the starred.json file.. enjoy : https://github.com/neodem/starman ...

A perfect match: Blogger and Google+ Pages for Takeout

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:39:00 GMT

Source: dataliberation.blogspot.com --- Thursday, February 14, 2013
You: A Blogger or Google+ Page owner who dreams of controlling their data. Us: A band of engineers who will stop at nothing to make your dreams come true. Meet us at https://www.Google.com/Takeout , and together we will export each of your blogs as an Atom Xml file. Or, if you’ve enjoyed exporting data from your Google+ Stream and Google+ Circles through Takeout in the past, but are looking for something more, join us now and download html files with your posts and json files containing the circles for each Google+ Page you own. If you don’t want to rush into things, we can also just export a single blog or page of your choice. Either way, give us a try. Life will never be the same. Posted by Kári Ragnarsson, The Data Liberation Front ...