From the monthly archives:

March 2010

How To Backup Gmail With Backupify

by Rob May on Mar 10, 2010 in Backups

Gmail backup was not on the near term roadmap for Backupify at launch, but was (shortly thereafter) our number one request for new services. There has been a bit of confusion around the user interface, and we are working to fix that. In the meantime, if you want to backup your Gmail, here are the [...]

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Trash or stash: Is it more dangerous to delete your data, or keep it?

by Jay Garmon on Mar 08, 2010 in Backups
privacy preserving data mining

Image by dekstop via Flickr Late last month, The Economist set off a little thought bomb modestly titled “New rules for big data”. The article laid out all the various entrenched assumptions standing in the way of thoughtful, relevant information policy in the age of ever larger and more critical data sets. Put more simply, [...]

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How would you write Backupify’s privacy policy?

by Jay Garmon on Mar 04, 2010 in About Backupify
Very Private Privacy Policy

Image by Mot via Flickr Last Saturday, the New York Times ran a piece on the inadequacy of modern Internet privacy practices. In short, the “opt-in to a byzantine privacy EULA” approach is universally reviled, and doesn’t begin to address the myriad levels of granular privacy control that many users expect these days, or the [...]

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Backupify 2012: The imaginary future of our featureset

by Jay Garmon on Mar 01, 2010 in About Backupify
Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine

Image by AdamL212 via Flickr What services will Backupify offer two years from now? Hard to say. We’ve got lots of cool ideas, some crazier than others. Here’s a listing of some of the wackier concepts that may or may not have come up during brainstorming sessions. Please feel free to weigh in on your [...]

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