{"id":269163,"date":"2018-07-21T07:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T05:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=269163"},"modified":"2018-07-21T07:13:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T05:13:52","slug":"google-microsoft-facebook-and-twitter-partner-on-data-transfer-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/269163-google-microsoft-facebook-and-twitter-partner-on-data-transfer-project.html","title":{"rendered":"Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter partner on Data Transfer Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter have partnered to develop a standard to move data between platforms &#8211; called the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/datatransferproject.dev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Transfer Project<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is an\u00a0open source initiative dedicated to developing tools that will let you transfer your data directly from one service to another, Google <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.googleblog.com\/2018\/07\/introducing-data-transfer-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a><\/strong> in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The organisations involved with this project are developing tools that can convert any service&#8217;s proprietary APIs to and from a small set of standardised data formats that can be used by anyone,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far, we have developed adapters for seven different service providers across five different types of consumer data; we think this demonstrates the viability of this approach to scale to a large number of use cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Google, consumers will benefit from improved flexibility and control over their data.<\/p>\n<p>End-users will be able to import their information into any participating service using cloud-based infrastructure rather than their own potentially-limited bandwidth and capability to transfer files.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/269079-googles-move-mirror-compares-poses-to-images-as-you-move.html\">Google&#8217;s Move Mirror compares poses to images as you move<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter have announced a new partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317],"tags":[52585,161,167,123,405],"class_list":["post-269163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-data-transfer-project","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269175,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269163\/revisions\/269175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}