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Being able to download a blob != having your data available.

• Bjartr 15y ago
  What does == having your data available?
  • laconian 15y ago
    Being able to take that data and move it to another service?
  • jmathai 15y ago
    See my comment here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3859864 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3859864
• 27182818284 15y ago
  I would actually contest for the majority of Facebook users the current download is what most users think of when they here "download your data." It is blob-like, but after unzipping you can actually start just clicking and opening files. CSV, &c are nice for programmers, but not the general public.
• ramblerman 15y ago
  I think the sentiment went over your head. Useful applications will pop up soon enough if they make truly open apis and downloadable data. He's not suggesting google/facbook actually implement the statistics themselves. In fact the opposite, because that would still mean the data was closed.