Backupify - backup your online self

Backupify provides a service to back up your online stuff,... online. Stuff like GMail, Hotmail, Google Docs, Blogger and Wordpress blogs, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, .... and the list goes on. 

You set up the services and accounts you want Backupify to back up and they take it from there.  In some cases you need to give them your user id and password (yes, that did make me nervous) and where possible, they use the target service's authentification protocols. 

Backupify uses Amazon's data services for storage, rather than build out their own infrastructure. If you have an Amazon S3 account, you can use that as the storage location and use Backupify to simply gather up the stuff to back up. 

At first I was a bit skeptical of things.  More than a little apprehensive to give out my Gmail password and so on. I heard a podcast by Leo Laporte where the head guy at Backupify was interviewed and that was interesting.  The podcast is here  (on "Net at Night" episode 135) and the interview starts about 31 minutes into the podcast. 

If you're interested in this service, get signed up in the next couple of days - Their giving out free accounts until the end of January. 

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Upload anything to Google Docs..

This showed up in my Google Docs yesterday. 

About a week ago, Google announced they were opening up Google Docs to let you upload and store just about any kind of file - pics, sound, video, zip archives, etc. From there, you can share the files with other users, or send them out as an e-mail attachment. Files can be up to 250 MB in size, but with a standard Google account, you are limited to 1 Gig of storage space.  You can by additional storage at $.25/Gig, not a bad price. This could certainly open up online storage to those who haven't used it before. And it would be handy if you didn't have a USB thumb drive with you to share files with someone. 

Still, I wonder where this is going. With services like Dropbox, the Google app seems to be a bit anemic.  To my knowledge, Dropbox has no file size limitation and their basic (free) service gives you 2 GB of storage space and features automatic synchronization with multiple computers. With the PogoPlug, I have all the storage I can plug in. Still, with Google, you never know. This may turn into a much more powerful "cloud drive".  

Just don't put anything up there you don't want the Chinese to see. 

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Sorry Fast Eddy - people aren't buying it anymore #healthcare

Ed Rendel is on the tube explaining the Brown victory in Mass by saying that the Dems didn't do a good enough job explaining the healthcare bill to the American people and why it was a good thing and that they would fix a system that everybody says is broken.  

Sorry, Fast Eddy - the American people aren't stupid like you folks seem to think.  They read the bill(s) (unlike most of the lawmakers) and saw that it was not a good thing - premiums would go up, taxes would go up (unless you're a Union member in Nebraska), quality of care would go down (you can't cut $500 billion from Medicare at the same time you have a massive infusion of participants from the baby boomers). 55% of the American people don't want this monstrosity. 85% of the American people are happy with their health insurance. The healthcare system may need some tweaks and fixes, but it definitely ain't broken. Come up with the tweaks and fixes - malpractice tort reform, insurance purchase across state lines, reasonable pricing for coverage of pre-existing conditions would be a start. 

This turkey needs to have a fork stuck in it and tossed in the trash.  

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THANK YOU Massachusetts!!! #MAsen

With 75% of the precincts reporting, Martha Coakley 46% and Scott Brown 53% of the vote - Coakley is conceding the special election for the Senate seat to Brown. 

Massachusetts voters have sent a clear message to Washington DC that we don't want this Healthcare bill, we don't the government to spend our future into oblivion. We don't want you bribing government officials to get your way. We don't want you in the hip pockets of the unions. We want you to be the government of ALL the people, not just the sugar daddy of your constituents. 

Somehow I don't think they will get it.  Oh well, maybe they will come November. 

Ted Kennedy must be spinning like a top in his grave. 

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