Google’s Data Liberation Front enables data portability. This is of particular importance for the Google Apps enterprise team, which is trying to make it easier for users to move from their existing platforms to Google’s cloud computing applications. Google is working to let business users export entire Google Sites wikis as HTML with microformats, and to let users select multiple Docs files and export them in OpenOffice.org, HTML or Microsoft formats.
– While Google’s Data
Liberation Front Website is intended to educate consumers about how they
can move data to and from Google applications such as Gmail and Blogger, it
will be worth watching the effect the effort will have on Google Apps.
The Data Liberation Front consists of a special team of…