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April 2010

Facebook has just made your data more useful – provided they can protect it

by Jay Garmon on Apr 29, 2010 in Backups
New, Improved *Semantic* Web!

Image by dullhunk via Flickr There are a number of competing opinions about Facebook’s new Open Graph Protocol. On the one hand, it’s a giant step towards the Semantic Web that Tim Berners-Lee predicted and desired two decades ago. On the other hand, it’s another play for making all your data a proprietary asset. The [...]

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Should You Be Allowed To ReSell Your Backupify Account On Ebay?

by Rob May on Apr 28, 2010 in About Backupify

Yesterday we noticed that someone is selling their free accounts on Ebay. The user also claims to have more than 10 of them, meaning that he or she claimed a bunch of free accounts, presumably with the idea of selling them once the paywall went back up. According to our Terms of Service, we could [...]

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Okay, so now Google wants to index your printer, too

by Jay Garmon on Apr 26, 2010 in Google Services

Google’s Chrome OS has a basic problem: The operating system wants to move everything to the cloud, but — despite futurist protestations to the contrary — not every aspect of contemporary technology is ready to make the leap. Case in point: Your print spooler, that archaic little piece of software that manages the jobs sent [...]

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Examples of Backupify in Action

by Rob May on Apr 26, 2010 in Backups

We’ve been around long enough now that we are getting customers email or tweet to us on a weekly basis about losing some data that and accessing their Backupify backups to restore it. Here are just a few samples. Neal Tucker lost his Twitter DMs. Lynn Jordan restored emails that were deleted when someone hacked [...]

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Library of Congress to consume the whole of Twitter

by Jay Garmon on Apr 22, 2010 in Backups
A logo of the United States Library of Congres...

Image via Wikipedia News broke last week that the Library of Congress would archive the entire history of Twitter, taking a wholesale data upload of almost every tweet ever posted to the service. Some potential questions arose from the announcement, so let’s answer them one by one: Is Backupify now competing with Feds for Twitter [...]

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