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...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 11; pp. 42 - 47
Main Authors:	FITZPATRICK, BRIAN W., LUECK, J. J.
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Nov2010
Subjects:	Data extraction Online data processing Web-based user interfaces Google Inc. Programming languages Web design
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost