As we become increasingly dependent on online email like gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and on online documents and online blogger services like wordpress or blogger it’s getting far too easy to forget to back up data.
Backup is a simple process in some cases and almost impossible in others, but I think the overall reliability of the services may lead us to think we can’t lose. I’d sure hate to lose all my blog posts and emails from the past months, but I have to admit my backing up leaves a lot to be desired.
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Labels: dataportability, social networks

Today was a big day for OpenID, a single identity framework, given its anouncement that Yahoo is joining OpenID. OpenID is an admirable effort which aims to provide a centralized Identity system for authentication which can be used by any web site. You can read about the details if you are new to OpenID. Now that Yahoo has decided to join it, it means that the almost 250 million user accounts which are present in the Yahoo database are now part of OpenID, which consequently, means that the almost More»

Labels: dataportability, Facebook, Open Source, openid