Web Apps, the New Lock-in, and the Opposite of Backup
27 Oct 2006 in General by GarrickOver at MNteractive.com, we’ve been talking about how to close your MySpace account. Leaving sites like MySpace and Friendster should be straight forward - simply delete me. Disconnecting me from all my ‘friends’. No biggy. Not letting me do that is both a privacy issue and a Google juice problem.
Sites like YouTube and Flicker are slightly different - I put stuff I find valuable there, but I’ve got a local copy of all that. No biggy.
The biggy is with sites like Amazon, eBay, BaseCamp, Stikipad, browser-only email, and other collaborative sites where the assets only exist on the service’s servers. What happens to my assets when I want to leave?
Ouch.
In addition to regularly backing up the important information on your local machines - the same goes for all the web-only services, what do we call this…a ‘back-down’?
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