Facebook,Google, Microsoft and twitter partner for ambitious new data project. Future of Portability.
The technology giant Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft are collaborating for 'future of portability'.
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Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft joined to announce a new initiative called data transfer project. Data transfer is a project designed in a new way of transferring the between the platforms.
Google described it as transferring the data from one service to another without download and re-upload to it.
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AS we know the current system of data transferring for photos, mail, contacts, calender, tasks, drawing from the publicly available APIs from different platforms.
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As cloud services is already there but the participants hope that the project will be best and flexible alternative of the APIs. Even Microsoft called for more companies to sign into the effort of 'portability and interoperability' in a Blog post.
The existing code of ongoing project is available on open source platform GitHub with the description of its scope on a white paper.
The Best thing of the codebase is it consist of adapter which can translate the proprietary into an interoperable transfer which made possible to Instagram data workable for Flicker and vice-versa.
These adapters also have system to encrypt the data while transferring by issuing the forward secret keys for each transaction. The system is focused on time transfer rather than continuous interoperability enabled by many APIs.
The bulk of coding has been done by the Google and Microsoft engineers who have thinking about the idea of more robust data transfer system from long time.
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