The Case Against Data Lock-in.
The article urges that computer engineers should allow users to easily extract their data from Web-based services. The author labels this concept “data liberation” and discusses ways in which not locking-in users can be a beneficial selling point for a Web provider. Case studies involving products f...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 11; pp. 42 - 47 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Nov2010
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| Sumario: | The article urges that computer engineers should allow users to easily extract their data from Web-based services. The author labels this concept “data liberation” and discusses ways in which not locking-in users can be a beneficial selling point for a Web provider. Case studies involving products from the Internet company Google are provided, and the most effective types of computer programming languages for data liberation are examined. Also discussed is the online media-sharing site Blogger. |
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