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Do you have a Facebook, a Twitter, an Email Account, a Flickr, or a YouTube account? Who doesn’t? Almost everyone in the world has one. Socialising on the web is great fun but what happens when the social networking service could be hit by downtime. Or your social media accidentally deleted your account like Mirco Wilhelm, whose Flickr account was mistakenly wiped out, along with the 4,000 photos, comments, and working hyperlinks in it, could have saved himself some amount of heartache had he backed up his online data.
It’s not uncommon for people to save their data all over the place on their hard drive – or even on multiple computers. But have you considered backing all your online data? All your tweets, photos, videos and even your wall posts. Mirco could have saved himself if he had signed up for Backupify, a handy utility that backs up social and cloud-based services.
Backupify is the leading backup provider for cloud based data, offering an all-in-one archiving, search and restore service for the most popular online services including Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, Zoho, Google Docs, Photobucket and WordPress. Services include Gmail, Friendfeed, Blogger and Hotmail. Backupify is an online service to do what you’ve always wanted, backup online profiles.
Backupify backups your online social life stream by entering your login credentials for each service you wish to backup and setting your preferences. Once you’ve signed up for an account, you are presented with a screen to select services. Most services use a token authentication approach, popularized by Google’s OAuth. The process involves Backupify requesting access to your account via a special web page on the particular service's website. Said service then gives Backupify a unique token to use, rather than your username and password, once you confirm Backupify is kosher to access your data. This makes access management much simpler for all parties involved. I also prepared a “HOW TO” just to make life simpler.
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2 comments:
Thanks so much for covering our service! You provided some great points that almost everyone today has at least one cloud service and keeping them locked up solely in those services is not always the safest thing to do as you may accidentally delete something (30% of data loss is from user error), a service like Gmail can go down unexpectedly, you can get hacked, etc. We'd like to feature this post on our website if that is okay with you.
Thanks again!
Kristin
@ Kristin. YES! Thank you very much for featuring my post.
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