From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Free Twitter Backup

by Rob May on Sep 29, 2009 in Services

To sign up for Free Twitter Backup, start here. We recently ran an analysis of our storage costs for various services that we backup, and it turns out the price for backing up a Twitter account is pretty low. The average Twitter backup is less than 2Mb, so we decided to offer it for free. [...]

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FriendFeed Backup Is Now Supported

by Rob May on Sep 14, 2009 in Backups
FriendFeedOauth

If you want to backup your FriendFeed account you are in luck, because FriendFeed backup is now in beta mode for Lifestreambackup users. Backing up your FriendFeed account just requires a single step. Click on the FriendFeed “manage” link and use Oauth to grant access to Lifestreambackup. From there your account will backup daily. Right [...]

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Oauth Support For Twitter Backup

by Rob May on Sep 12, 2009 in Lifestreaming

When we first launched our Twitter backup, Twitter did not support Oauth so we had to store usernames and passwords to pass to the Twitter API. Now that Twitter offers Oauth support, we have converted our backup service to use Oauth so that we no longer have to store you username and password. Existing Lifestreambackup [...]

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Backup Your Facebook Account

by Rob May on Sep 09, 2009 in Backups
Add a Facebook account

This morning, Facebook backup using Facebook Connect was released in beta for all Lifestreambackup users. Below are some simple screenshots that show how it works. 1. Click on the “settings” page and choose Facebook 2. Facebook Connect will open a popup window and ask if you want to grant Lifestreambackup access to your account. You [...]

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