The Great Google Wave invite thread. Anyone who wants an invite post your Gmail address here and anyone who has invites available please use to invite the people on this list. There are also a bunch of requests in the Invites group here: http://friendfeed.com/invites
I have a few but holding them for a few people who have already asked me. I'm at kolint [at] googlewave [dot] com btw. A pain I know but if you can, could you update your comment when you have an account or just delete your comment. Ta! :-) EDIT: Try this site for invites: http://googlewaveinvites.com/
- Kol Tregaskes
Are people on this list getting invites or at least been told they have an invite on the way? You might have to be patient, it could take a long time for one to come through.
- Kol Tregaskes
Adam, yep agree. Maybe because I did that (month ago though) helped me get mine through from Vijay so quickly!
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol, the invitation process seems to be based on nominations. For example, everytime someone nominates/invites you, you get bumped up the queue for an account until you're at the top and you get sent an invite by the team
- Ysabel Legaspi
Ysabel, ah I see, So lots of people must have nominated me. Darn, so a few users I have nominated could be waiting a looooong time. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
if that voting system is right I'm very annoyed. I asked for an invite months ago, now all the numpties are all over it I'm not going to get a look in. It's like I've been sat at the front of a shop queue and everyone's just walking right past me into the shop. I am British but I detest both queuing and waiting, so this is pretty tough going
- Toby Graham
Like most other people, yesterday I wasn't aware of that I «needed» a Google Wave invitation this badly...but now I am!!! quackofdawn at gmail dot com
- Quackofdawn
Please I want a invite :( jesi.nieves at gmail
- Jesi
from iPod
neternity@gmail.com and i promise to send a wave of 100,901 twitter followers to your doorstep each of whom will have averaged 1 tweet in their existence - this might not get me an invite but surely it will get some notice - must have that something special - my google wave invite special sauce ingredient is twitter juice PS Not to be construed as an offer, not valid in any of the 53 US states, do not try this at home, caution: contents are hot.
- Ross Button
Anyone have already a wave invite?. I'm a developers anxious to take a look at wave. jmiguel.rodriguez at gmail.com . Thank you very much in advanced!
- jmiguel rodriguez
trentono gmail com...thanks in advance, mysterious stranger...
- Trent Olson
lol at this point i gotta think that by the time an invite makes it this far down the list i may already be at the top of the official invite list but doesn't hurt to try right? marco [dot] nunez @ gmail - thanks!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I'm also trying. As Marco said, it doesn't hurt :) iamclem at gmail. thanks!
- Clément Simon
Hello, I would love to have a google wave invite too. ilteris@gmail.com thanks!
- ilteris
Oops! You said gmail address: marybaumcreative (at) gmail. Although I run marybaum@marybaum.com through gmail servers too.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from email
louisrbourque@gmail.com - an invite would be greatly appreciated, and I'll pass it on! Thanks
- Louis Bourque
from iPod
can you send me invite for google wave to i.igors (at) gmail (dot) com
- Igor Krstev
If any kind soul has an invite to spare, it would be gratefully received and shared on once GOOG get around to inviting me in. :-) The key piece of information belatedly being andy.bold@gmail.com kthxbai
- Andy Bold
Looking for one myself at alexscrivener (at) gmail (dot) com
- Alex Scrivener
I'd love an invite. I was sort of expecting to get one from Google, as I have been in all of their other betas, but to no avail :( carlton.prest@gmail.com
- Carlton Prest
Plesae send an invite! jwatson820@gmail.com
- Jonna Watson
damn, the pretty please guy will get one for sure, that steve guy @hotmail.com is likely last on the list - but we all will get one if that scobilizer guy notices that we are all here and asking and so cul cuz we are all on friendfeed - maybe if we twitter too it might help - hello google !!!!
- Ross Button
how do we know which ones are sent? I'm just doing my own thread.
- Raphael, Raphael
I've been too busy to get on FF the last few days....figures something important happening and I missed it! I knew about Google Wave but didn't know there would be a thread to post a request. In any case, better late than never, I'd love an invite at madeliene2007 at gmail.com. :)
- Bonnie Foster
I've been on Twitter all day trying to get one, I'd love it if my day can end by me finally getting an invitation :) I'll be sure to send some invites to other people in this thread! andryou@gmail.com
- andryou
re.renus@gmail.com somebody please send me a invitation... ^_^ : )
- Emad
wimmulder@gmail.com. Am really excited to try this out for a collaborative research project I'm working on. Hoping someone has an invite to spare!
- Wim Mulder
giuliocc@gmail.com . Keen to see if we can shake M$'s cage about messaging and collaboration.
- Giulio Campobassi
Would love an invite - jonathonc at gmail.com
- Jonathon
VitaArdiyana (at) gmail (dot) com, Thanks before Kol. I will delete my comment when i have my google wave account.
- Vimala Vita
Just digging into the comments now but let me begin by saying that you did an incredible job with this thread Kol, 473 (474 after I post) comments!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Google Wave : Could anyone invite me ? : jean.charles.blondeau[at]gmail.com Thanks
- Jean-Charles
System Messages Invite Status: 17559 invite requests in the system. 7 invites confirmed as received by requester. 199 invites claimed as sent from giver.
- oliv21
How does anyone know if someone has already been invited? You could go back and edit your comment when you receive an invitation, but since that takes days, it could be ages before you know.
- marziah
I've not even had a nomination, RK. At google dot com I'm suezanne , in the event anyone wants to make a nomination. I've asked before on friendfeed. It's kind of humiliating to beg.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
i have decided that if i do indeed get an invite, i will decline, forward my gmail account to windows live and put ie back as my default browser and i will bing it
- Ross Button
@Ross: why punish yourself for something you didn't do? :)
- François Dongier
I just want some google love; just like the rest of us do; but n,o they wave at us as they have their private, invite only party; thumb to nose, fingers a waving - that's the google wave; we need a tshirt
- Ross Button
al86shaw@gmail.com :) Not expecting anything, but thanks anyway!
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
Send to me plz ,,, mxina.com {a} gmail {dot} com
- Mohammad Sharifi
Has anyone received their invite? I haven't yet.
- Rodrigo
from email
I'd love an invite to Google Wave pls. non-geeky bf got one before me! that's just not cricket.. hehe :) icetigerza (at) gmail
- Kim
Hello, if there's any invite left, you'll make me more than happy ;-) matthieu.beauval [at] gmail [dot] com, thank you !
- matthieu beauval
If there are still invites left daryl@learnscape.com.au
- Daryl Hunt on FF
Of all the people posting here the chances of me getting an invite are slim but I'm still willing to try. If someone wants to shoot an invite over to jcallahan126@gmail.com I'd REALLY appreciate it.
- John
from iPhone
Aww Did I miss the Wave of invites? Come on Kol... Hook me up! :)
- Walt Ruppar
It looks like it, although you might be able to use the hyperlink on the front of the Wave homepage to request an invitation, if it's still available.
- Tyson Key
Google Wave Anybody? I needz one plz... walt {dot} ruppar {at} gmail [dot] com
- Walt Ruppar
from iPhone
I'll give this a try: j.linkola at gmail - anyone have invites left?
- Jussi Linkola
Anyone can provide a Google Wave invite? bmtrocks@gmail.com
- Brian
Hi guys I realy Waiting impatiently, but still have no invite... can anybody sent me invite please please simplisityzehra@gmail.com thanks in advance
- Zehra
firatdemirel at gmail.com just needs an invite for Gwave. Thanks.
- Fırat DEMİREL
Does anyone have an invite to share? Can you send it to v9y.rec at gmail.com please? Thanks.
- Vinay | विनय
Can somebody send an ivitation to terror@gmail.com . Thanks in advance.
- Yiğit
Please send an invitation to me at trivedi.knz@gmail.com. I got tired waiting.
- Kandarp Trivedi
I'll be glad to invite others on this thread once I get mine. Thanks in advance.. Keep the thread alive.
- Kandarp Trivedi
rodgerdb@gmail.com ha oh man am I late to this thread =( Here's to hoping!
- Rodger Ballard
really need one, would be so grateful thacker90184@gmail.com
- brandon
I want Google Wave invite too, please sent it to: ric4p5 {at} gmail [dot] com Thanks
- jose manuel
If anyone has invites, could I have one please? tekked - gmail.com
- TechKid
allanbesselink<at>gmail<dot>com ... please!
- Allan Besselink
I'll wager that some of the folks on this list have received their invite by now, or no longer want one - I have 16 invitations at this instant. It's probably easier for me if you DM.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
fifiquimbo(at)gmail(dot)com. I would love one, thanks!
- Fifi Quimbo
I have 8 invites to Google Wave, if someone is interested, please DM with e-mail address. Ciao, Andrea
- Andrea Romoli
This is very sweet - I found it last night trying to figure out what all the police action in the area was (they were down last night, so no dice). You can get updates on EMS/fire calls from their Twitter account: @WashCo_FireMed. We need more hyperlocal mashups like this! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
from iPhone
Hey Josh, a buddy and I run the @pdxalerts account on twitter. We post police and fire incidents in the Portland Metro Area. Check it out: http://www.twitter.com/pdxaler... Oh, and BTW the @WashCo_FireMed twitter account isn't official. It was created by screen scraping the Joint CAD Incident Tracking System data and outputting it using Twitterfeed.
- Joe Perrin
I run the @WashCo_FireMed Twitter feed. It's actually a custom php script that I run and host, not a screen scrape and Twitterfeed :) I'm looking for more online dispatch systems that I can set this up for.
- Gary
Leo, have to tell you MacBreak Weekly is my least favorite of the TWiT casts. Just three guys taking the piss and pontificating. Annoying really ...
- Jeff
I really enjoy mac break weekly. It's currently my favorite podcast. Keep up the great shows Leo. Btw i'm also enjoying this week in google too!
- Joe Perrin
from iPhone
Jeff..you have jumped the shark man!
- John Brazel
il love macbreak weekly but i think its time for iPhone weekly because (even if i am a big iPhone geek) i miss the non iPhone times, but hey you are the president do as you wish ;)
- alex
Have I JTS? Maybe so! This weeks show had me crawling the walls! Maybe time for some new guest hosts.
- Jeff
MBW, WW, TWIT & SN are fantastic..... Thanks Leo for such entertaining and informative shows.
- Paul Meason
What happened to Scott Bourne? I really miss hearing about what he purchased the past week and amount of money he sits on top of
- Tom Peterson
This is a link to Scott's blog. It's not so much an explanation but an announcement he was taking a break from MacBreak Weekly. I would also love to know what happened. http://scottbourne.com/post...
- Charles LePage
This week's MacBreak Weekly was a bit content light. While I still love hearing the wide-ranging discussion, this week's pointed NDA limited discussion was less interesting than it has been in the past when such limits were not in place. Granted, August is frequently content light and we know that there is particular news coming in the next two weeks (part of which is what can't be spoken about). What can we do?
- JR Holmes
@Joe Perrin Maybe This Week in Phones with the acknowedgement that much of it will deal with the iPhone but also include coverage of interest regarding Android, Blackberry and other smartphones. There is lots going on in the field.
- JR Holmes
I would definately subscribe to a this week in phones excellent idea
- Peter Wilson
What we need to do then is suggest some members of a panel for This Week in Phones. Any suggestions?
- JR Holmes
Scott Bourne is working on some projects and has to take a temporary leave from the podcast. They mentioned it a couple weeks ago but maybe only on the live view. MacBreak is one of my favorite podcasts and the timing of it is perfect. I can listen to the live show at work and still get work done...a little bit of work but enough to get by.
- Kelly J
A quick note from Blazers practice. Brandon Roy, the Blazers' all-star guard, missed practice today with flu-like symptoms. - http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindb...
No problemo! It's the least I could do for the Tech Guy.... Happy New Year!
- Walt Ruppar
what sets chi.mp apart from others? i've noticed it's been down for the last day and a half
- Cee Bee
Honestly, I don't even use it... but since they sent out invites to a bunch of folks including me, I'm sharing. LG asked a similar question when the service first arrived http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Walt Ruppar
It looks like another lifestream product - but I like to try everything, if only to make sure that I reserve leolaporte (http://leolaporte.mp for example). I should probably reserve TWiT, too.
- Leo Laporte
To properly back up you need three copies. One on your local drive in case something gets corrupted. One on an external hard drive or other media in case your hard drive dies. One on an external hard drive or other media or storage service that you store someplace else in case your house or office burns down.
- Robert Scoble
Dropbox. Three separate laptops and their Web service.
- Stephen Pierzchala
Forget the external hdd in some other location, and just back up to that webspace you have that you never use, or maybe cloud-based backup.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
For a local backup I run Time Machine on my iMac to an external drive. I also have a remote backup in the cloud using Backblaze. In addition I use DotMac and Mesh for sharing files among different computers.
- Jonathon
Here's mine: The original copy, one stored using Time Machine, one copy on a network storage device (ReadyNAS) using RAID and one copy at an off-site backup location. Works well and I've got my backup scripts running constantly. EDIT: I also use Dropbox for my documents.
- Eric D. Brown
#1 hard drive, #2 another hard drive, #3 old stuff goes to DVD
- barl0w
Around midnight I received a weird 'file access error', so I spent the first 90 minutes of 2009 running fsck on my MacBook Pro, then went to bed. First task on waking up? Time Machine (whole system) plus Mozy (home directory). Sadly, using the network support to back up with Time Machine to a disk on my Airport Extreme failed horribly when I tried it, so I'm down to Mozy (over the Internet) and Time Machine to a directly-connected USB drive.
- James
Simple enough - internal drives backup nightly to external drives. The backup copy of my system drive is boot-able. I need to add the off-site factor to this setup. SuperDuper! is my backup software.
- Tom Harrison
I agree the dropbox solution works well for me except for photos and video. In that case I have main HD, backup HD an HD I try to keep off site. If all else fails I have high res jpegs on flickr.
- gfurry
computer, extra hard drive i keep in fire safe at home, WD Passport i keep with me most of the time. I use a self written program to run backups to all 3 places which i try to run it every few days to a week. cheaper then online services!
- Russell Thomas
I'm using TimeMachine. I'm thinking about cloud solutions, but didn't find something cheap enough...
- Simon Robic
I have one of the unibody Aluminum Macbooks with a 120GB SSD drive onboard. I plug this into 2 x 500GB USB disks when I'm at work. One of these is a Time Machine backup. The other has manually driven Carbon Copy Cloner backups. Done when I remember. Probably once a month. I also have a small mini-NAS on my work network which Apple Backup does an incremental network backup to once a day. At home I've got another small mini-NAS which I do the same. Also do a weekly backup to Amazon S3 using JungleDisk.
- Alasdair Allan
Each of our pcs has an external hd, an internal backup drive, and we have a backup server. We back up to the internal b/u drive, sync it to the external, then to the b/u server. It may sound like overkill, but we manage a TON of mission-critical data. Websites get backed up daily to the backup server and to off-site FTP.
- Ron's Home And Hardware
Original, one copy on my Drobo via Time Machine and important (and not so huge stuff) on S3 via JungleDisk and on iDisk. Burning houses aren't as common over here as they are in the US. :)
- Holger Eilhard
I have a (1) a portable HD that I bring to work and store (2) there and also another (3) PC running Windows Server with a RAID5 setup. Tens of thousands of photos to lose would be a disaster.
- Loukas Koufodontes
RAID 1 NAS, periodically copied to external USB hard drive.
- Matt Mutz
Holger we have both fire and earthquakes so I decided no local storage for backups. It's all offsite now and I feel better for it.
- Todd Hoff
Mirrored NAS 500GB each, plus portable HDD... cloud coming soon! Evaluating Amazon vs. Mozy - thoughts??
- Susan Beebe
I agree that it feels good to be backed up. I use duplicate external HD for my photos, and SmugVault (Amazon S3) for offsite. Uploading photos to SmugVault is a pain - it is very slow - but it works. Of course, if you forget to pay Amazon, you lose your backup. Backing up current pix to SmugVault is no problem, but I have a 1.5TB backlog. I tried DVD offsite, but they don't last very long.
- Tom Kimmerer
Dell's DataSafe runs on my laptop, important files (like my photos, vidoes, and music) are manually archived to external drives on a reg basis, and Live Mesh keeps my documents synced between my computers and the cloud. Everything else is online.
- Sarah Perez
todd: if I'd live in earthquake and fire country like, for example, say California, I'd also be worried about onsite backup. But - thank gd - the worst thing that could happen here is a flood, and even that's a stretch...
- Holger Eilhard
The drive I'm on, an IDE external drive, or networked drive, and I'd like to have some decent remote back up, but I need Terra bytes worth of it and something that lets me upload the file structure as is. I'm using acronis true image echo to back up my installs. vista ult.
- Devlin Holliday
I use Second Copy 7 for automated backups. It automatically sends backup copies to two other systems on the LAN and one off-site backup via FTP on a remote server. It also makes periodic copies to a potable drive that is sent to an off-site location. Frequently changed documents are copied every two hours, others are copied every day or once a week depending on importance.
- Vishwas
Media is stored online. Important docs are on an external HD and back up Gmails.
- Mona Nomura
1 weekly copy to external HD, Same again on another HD kept out of the house. Critical files changing more rapidly to Dropbox. Not perfect, but has worked for me.
- Pete Marshall
Windows Home Server - two copies of each file. And i'm thnking of JungleDisk or somthing to Amazon S3.
- Roberto Bonini
Drobo for storage, I back up important personal docs to S3/Jungledisk nightly. $5/month dirt cheap! I use an external disk for my 750+gigs of media (iTunes, photos (100+ gigs!) and my own videos, etc) that I take off site. I run time machine on my Macbook Pro at the office, take the macbook home, time machine drive stays here for offsite.
- Lon Seidman
Time Machine to an external drive does well enough for me. Maybe I'm not paranoid enough, but I just don't see the value in an off-site backup for personal use.
- David Wynn
from fftogo
2 x Backup drives, alternate backups to each drive daily, and adrive.com for offsite backup (nice 50gig free account :o) ) along with DVD backup on adhoc basis
- Carl Grint
Server to local using SyncBack SE, then Carbonite copies the local data off site.
- Michael Krigsman
Virtually everyone who chimed in on this thread is a techie. Think for a moment about the typical consumer. There are no easy solutions. Larger hard drives make it easier to accumulate tons of docs, photos, music, and videos. Hard drives last a few years (and what data is there on reliability of drives that haven't spun up for years?). DVD-R and CD-R are probably only good for a few years (and of course are tiny relative to the data sizes we're talking about). Solid state still has a high cost per gigabyte.
- LogEx
Online backup is useful, but will the company be around in 3 years? 5 years 10 years? What about the privacy of your documents? Break up your data into chunks and upload encrypted files? Also, consider how fragmented data is for many consumers... multiple computers, gaming consoles, mobile devices, etc.
- LogEx
Mozy is in the cloud, backed by EMC, pretty simple to use (even for non-techies) and pretty cheap. Great support when you chat or call in.
- Lee Herman
Keep in mind fire safes are designed to keep paper from combusting, not protect electronic gear from damage. Big difference.
- stretta
from twhirl
@Logical Extremes - your comments are definitely spot-on for Windows users. I think the Mac has a great built-in (and easy to use) solution. While Time Machine may not be configurable enough for us geeks, it's a real winner for trouble-free unattended backups. Very easy to swap disks too for taking them off site.
- Lon Seidman
@Logical I see that a lot of non-techies are using external HDDs. They're pretty easy, but yeah, nothing lasts forever.
- Sarah Perez
I've been using mozy.com for over a year now for pictures, personal files etc and it works well. I'm kind of a techie (a CTO @ ADP.COM), but, consider myself a consumer when it comes to my home stuff (has to be easy, wife doesn't have to think about it etc). I've recently started using Live Mesh to push files across all of my home devices as well which is great (esp. for one note,...
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- Richard Anderson
Logical: That's what Carbonite does. You can easily backup 100GB to them. David Friend, their CEO, told me he got the idea when a family member lost photos when laptop was stolen from a car.
- Michael Krigsman
Every copy of data you put onto S3 is replicated (within and across data centers) so it's highly durable. It's where all my important data goes (through Jungledisk) and has been for a long time (disclaimer: I work there now, but was a user long before). Hard drives at home (a few TBs) are for things I look at every day and for sample libraries :)
- Deepak Singh
Right, I know there are tons of components to an overall strategy out there, but for the masses, they're lucky if they have an automatic on-site backup like Time Machine. My point is that computers aren't like a file drawer or an appliance. Good backup today requires a good strategy and a combination of tools, and most consumers aren't up to it.
- LogEx
The points raised by Logical Extremes are the same reasons I have not signed up with an online backup company. How do I know they'll still be here in 10 years, and how do I know I can trust them with my data?
- Tom Harrison
Quite true @Logical Extremes--We all learn the importance of back-ups the same way: we suffer a data loss. Somethings I have backed up to DVD or another computer or "in the cloud" some projects live on in the "oral tradition" where I simply describe how great this thing is to someone else--an if it's lost--it's legend lives on...(silly)...
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
External hard drive is 1. Mozy is 2. Mesh.com for extra important stuff is 3. Skydrive for paranoia
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
The other issue that hasn't been mentioned is data obsolescence. Us techies can handle it if we plan for it, but as applications and data file formats get older, more and more files become unreadable for most folks. How many of you have old files that you don't have a reader app for anymore? I always encourage people to choose the simplest, most prevalent, and most open data format for a given application. ".txt" rules!
- LogEx
And I hope that people rank highly the availability of simple, open format, file export capabilities, when choosing which services will house their data (backup, social, etc.).
- LogEx
Re the trust issues with online backup, I think you have to go with a bigger player / name (like EMC owning mozy.com), that was my reasoning at least
- Richard Anderson
Microsoft Mesh to sync across all machines, backup (using Syncbackup) of one primary to network attached storage, and Jungledisk to Amazon S2 as well for off-site + periodic checkpoint copies to external disks. I am a fan of backup software that stores the backup as individual files.
- Ian D. Nock
Windows Vista Backup to 2 external drives at 2 locations + burning to DVDs. All long-term backups are regularly re-hashed and checked to make sure they can still be read. In addition, most of my backups contain a copy of an entire computer so all the programs are there.
- Zian Choy
SuperDuper! plus selective JungleDisk for Mac. unison to server at school for laptop. SmugMug for photos.
- Emil Sit
I'm beginning to think I should try online backup for offsite backups of my personal data. Has anyone used both BackBlaze and Mozy.com? How do they compare? Would anyone recommend another service at a similar price point? ($5/mo, unlimited)
- Mike English
Roberto: Also look at Mozy Home -- It is also 5$/month unlimited.
- Robert Miller
Different kind of workflow, also for @LogicalExtreme's non-techies: Keep an Outbox folder on every machine. Store pretty much every document you can there. Copy Outbox(es) to USB drive every week or so. Keep the USB drive in your car or on keychain. It's not a full-state backup, but 98% of computer state is not life-critical. Emergencies are rare and it takes less than a week to rebuild computer state.
- Christopher Galtenberg
(Can also have VitalNonPrivate and VitalPrivate folders in Outbox - zip and email both to yourself, the latter with encryption -- that's your 'cloud backup')
- Christopher Galtenberg
Just spent a few days sorting my backups out. Now have 1) machine image (Vista Ulitmate backup could use Acronis or Ghost) which will only be updated occassionally - on an external drive, 2) system image and incremental (updated monthly) on a protected local partition using Acronis 3) daily incremental backup of user data areas using Acronis on external drive and 4) daily copy of user data areas on an external server using Mozy - easy set up, good price, unlimited capacity. Can't be too careful!
- Mark Warren
I love my ReadyNas (http://www.readynas.com/) and have already failed over from a bad disk. Killer timing on this thread; getting ready to rsync to the cloud...
- Jeff Malek
Currently Local system RAID 1....soon adding backup to NAS (also RAID1) & using an Offline backup service like Dropbox or other AWS hosted service.
- Mark Krynsky
Carbonite. I just lost all data on my laptop a week ago. Restored my mission critical files immediately (after reinstalling Windows), then restored everything else over the next few days. There is no need to personally maintain three copies when you're using an online system with it's own redundancy such as Carbonite.
- John Morley
Web-based backup -- Carbonite, Mozy or Jungledisk with Amazon S3 work nicely. I've shared John Morley's experience.
- Sean McBride
I'm seeing Carbonite, Mozy and Jungledisk regularly mentioned... anyone care to chime in on why one versus the other?
- Sean Katona
Sean Katona: I prefer Jungledisk with Amazon S3 to Carbonite and Mozy, because of price, user interface and reliability. You might want to try all three to judge for yourself.
- Sean McBride
I used Jungledisk and switched to Carbonite because it backs up everything automatically as it changes and I don't have to worry about it at all.
- Todd Hoff
I haven't tried Jungledisk or Mozy. Carbonite is great for me because it's seamless... you just don't ever have to worry about it. If it's not backing up properly it will tell you. If you have any files over 4gig that you want backed up though, you do have to manually tell Carbonite to keep those backed up or else they'll be skipped.
- John Morley
I back up my important files on a back-up server then I back-up the back-up twice on tapes: One copy in my office, the other in my wife's office.
- Charles Nadeau
I've found backing up to be far less important than it used to be - almost everything I have is in the cloud. Code is in version control hosted offsite and backed up, documents are in google docs, email's in gmail, photos are in flickr, not much else left to back up.
- Parand
I've implemented a tiered system with numerous local snapshots (Time Machine, in my case), and automatic remote sync (Jungledisk). Details and overall considerations for any backup strategy here: http://tr.im/2v7b
- Phil
IDrive is one of the better solutions. It is faster for backups and restores compared to other services, and easy to use. But nothing beats a local drive based backup. Online Backup services are simply too slow.
- Kitu Gidwani
Someone needs to come up with software that lets you backup to a USB drive stored at your friend's house. You backup to the drive, take it to his house and plug it in, then do incrementals over the web. Encrypt everything. You do the same for him.
- Dom
I just back up things to an external hard drive. And I refuse to back up to the cloud as I can't trust something that isn't under my control.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I use Acronis to back up an image to my FreeBSD box with ZFS. (Sorry Scoble, they're western digital drives :). Then, I also use rsync.net (lots of space for cheap), and - you guessed it - rsync the important files (documents, pictures, etc) to the cloud.
- David Andrzejewski
I've been using Mozy and have recently been trying Syncplicity [http://www.syncplicity.com]. I don't know if I can justify the $10/mo for 50GB, though. The benefit to Syncplicity for me is that it's near real-time sync with unlimited computers.
- Cory
Locally I have a RAID5 array on a dedicated server, otherwise Backblaze/DropBox.
- Michael Laccetti
Robert - THANKS! I was one of the lucky 20 winners of the Jungle Disk software by @Mosso - wow, this is awesome and works seamlessly with Amazon s3 online "cloud" data storage services. Finally, I have offsite, encrypted backups!! Thanks again! Keep getting FFers cool promos like this! :)
- Susan Beebe
I love Google Apps for your Domain. The only downside is that they dont include Google Reader. This means I have to have a separate Google account just for using Google Reader which is uber lame.
- Joe Perrin
No GReader, and my company's account doesn't yet have labs either. I also haven't seen any statistics as an administrator (usage, sign ins, etc). They also need to enable https for the start page feature.
- Chris Stevenson
it seems like "what gmail does NOT do better" might be a shorter article :D - the only problem with google apps is that it does not include all the features of a regular google account (reader, notebook, etc.) and it does not always have the newest features from gmail. still it is works much better than some alternatives like ms outlook server for SMB imho
- Mike Chelen
I was laid off from Yahoo! today. The package I got: Paid as a Yahoo employee until Feb 13th. After that they'll cut me a check for 2 months salary. For those that have been with Yahoo for over 5 years (not me) they will cut the check for 3 months instead of 2.
- Joe Perrin
@Joe - You should start your own company
- Shevonne
Better than the bankers are making out this xmas...
- Bob Sonin
I feel sorry for those that work at the banks, but not for the banks themselves, if that makes sense.
- Ian May
we have all seen this coming for quite some time, and i don't mean just the r-d - it's too bad we have to touch the wall with our noses to see/feel the dead end - bankers are just schmoes like us, a few make out like bandits and the rest hang - it's the way the money works.
- ernie yacub
that sounds cold and heartless and i don't mean it to be, i do feel badly for people who are losing their livelihoods and their homes but feeling sorry for them doesn't help them or me - doing something about it does.
- ernie yacub
Robert - FYI - our very own Edythe on FF was laid off from Yahoo yesterday ... see http://friendfeed.com/e... Perhaps you have recommendations for her in terms of getting back on her feet with a new opportunity
- Susan Beebe
The term "Yahooligan" might not be appropriate. Hooligan is a term in Britain for young adults that commit crimes such as damage of public property and violent conduct towards others. Still, I read about the 1.5k staff they're laying off. Hope those that are affected bounce back quickly!
- alphaxion
Scoble - time to revisit your thoughts on the MSFT buyout?
- Dave Hodson
Dave: I have been consistent in saying Yahoo was idiotic to turn down the MSFT deal.
- Robert Scoble
Karim: Microsoft was stupid for trying to buy Yahoo but Yahoo is 10x stupider for turning down the deal.
- Robert Scoble
I believe the term is more stupid as I often tell my children. :)
- Michael Wishnick
Yahoo has really shot themselves in the foot by not accepting M$ offer... hindsight is 20/20
- Susan Beebe
I wonder, with all the overlap between yahoo and microsoft, wether any yahoo jobs could be saved by any deal.
- Roberto Bonini
well, Robert, in fairness, you seemed to be stepping back and saying *the market* (not you, personally) had declared Yahoo! a winner for turning down Microsoft, but some of your comments around that time did have a kind of, "haha! Yahoo wins! Suck it Microsoft!" sort of feel to them :-)
- Karim
hmm, hopefully these guys will move out of yahoo and do some cool work with other internet startups. Spread the yahoo tech / love :)
- Dipankar Sarkar
it was encouraging to see a few job offers for former Yahoo employees on Twitter last night.
- Karim
Four months of severance is pretty nice.
- Todd Hoff
Her protected twitter account looks kinda sketchy. Following: 6, followers: 5, updates: 37. I'd like to see some additional proof or confirmation.
- Hao Chen
I was laid off from Yahoo! today. But unlike Yang, that doesn't stop me from knowing how to use the shift key: http://tr.im/24bo
- Joe Perrin
sounds like something straight of out the movie Toys.
- Joe Perrin
It was surreal... I sat at a stop light and watched several poke their heads out the window, then the door opened and they just streamed out. I can't even imagine they lifestyle they lead to take a 50 foot long pink Hummer to the mall to go shopping... :-)
- Josh Bancroft
"No doubt, most tech companies are getting pummeled on Wall Street, but Yahoo's drop has to be particularly galling, given how much more Microsoft was willing to pay for the company."
- Joe Perrin
from Bookmarklet
"Think of Jing as a supplement to all your chat discussions, email threads, forum posts and blog entries. It sits nicely on your desktop, ready to capture and share your stuff at a moment's notice. Simply select an area of your screen, capture it as an image or record it as a video, and then click Share. Jing conveniently places a URL to your content which you can paste into any of your conversations."
- Kerem Ozkan
from Bookmarklet
totally over sold as a " conversation" tool... wtf is that!?! it's just a good basic, free screen capture utility.
- Jon Price
Here's the biggest reason I think might influence Apple to build a netbook: There are TONS of loyal Mac users and fans (like me!) who are intrigued by, interested in, buying, and hacking on these little Atom based computers. But we can't run our favorite OS (Mac OS X) and Mac applications on them! We're forced to use Linux or Windows or make a Hackintosh. Who knows if the market reasons (not enough profit) and other excuses an MBA might come up with will prevent them from doing it, but I know there are a ton of people like me who are Mac lovers who REALLY REALLY WANT an Apple netbook. Pretty please, Uncle Steve?
- Josh Bancroft
I doubt it's going to happen. First of all, Apple likes making money and I don't see them pulling in a lot mass producing cheap netbooks. I don't see them using the Atom processor yet. They have gone with Core2Duo's as the minimum speed for their current lineup. Anything slower will not work well with their installed software. Last, resolution. I don't see them going below 1280x800 on a 12" screen. Anything less would be hard to read and the installed base of apps aren't expected to run at a lower res.
- Rodfather
Well, there is a possibility they could announce something netbook-ish next week. The Mac laptop line *is* due for a refresh. . . .
- bob corrigan
I'm betting Apple may make a bigger iPod touch. Maybe w/ 5" screen using Intel Moorestown chip for 2009/2010.
- Rodfather
I already gave up on Apple and bought an eee pc. From my standpoint, that pretty much guarantees Apple will announce a Apple-brand netbook any second now.
- thepete
If they are going to release something netbook-like, I'd guess a thin/light 12" going for $800-1200. Basically a Mac version of the Lenovo x200.
- Rodfather
For what it's worth I'd buy an Apple netbook as soon as it was made available.
- Joe Perrin
Don't forget about Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). No new features, concentrating on making optimizations - making the OS smaller and faster. It's Intel only (no more PPC), so that means no more big Universal Binary files. That alone will probably reduce OS X's disk footprint by half. Hard drives are big and cheap, and are only getting bigger and cheaper. Why would they spend effort to make OS X smaller, if not for smaller devices like a netbook?
- Josh Bancroft
My basic complaint is this: the "cloud" lets me slide effortlessly between computers, and my state follows me. But it's jarring to go from my MacBook Pro to a netbook running XP to my iPhone. I want more consistency when sliding from device to device! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
And to the point that the Atom processor isn't fast enough to run OS X and its apps, go watch some videos of it running on hacked netbooks. I saw my friend Brian's in person, and was AMAZED at how fast it is. More than adequate. As to screen size, the HP Mini Note 2133 has a 10" 1280x768 screen. The 1024x600 limit on current netbooks is a stupid Microsoft restriction. They won't sell XP on devices with higher than 1024x600, 1GB RAM, etc. What they call ULCPCs (Ultra Low Cost PCs). Doesn't apply to Apple.
- Josh Bancroft
I agree with everything you said. I'm sure it runs fine on an Atom, but I doubt it's fast enough for the standards Apple set for themselves. Don't forget the user experience too. I'm perfectly fine using a 10" screen at 1280x768, but the pixels are way too small for the masses.
- Rodfather
Well, if you're going to be all logical and everything, then SURE they'll never make one. ;-)
- Josh Bancroft
Wouldn't it be easier if Apple just allowed OSX to be installed on any machine? Maybe manufacturers will start providing OSX drivers for their devices then. Then maybe I can build my own OSX netbook or a workstation cheaper than a $3K Mac Pro.
- Rodfather
Re: letting OS X install on any hardware, I don't think this will ever happen. OS X would turn into Windows, in a bad way, and inherit all of Windows' problems. I attribute a huge about of the instability and frustration that people have with Windows to the HUGE array of drivers, hardware, and other weird crap that it has to try to support. Apple can perfect OS X because they always know EXACTLY what hardware it's going to run on, and it's a short list.
- Josh Bancroft
Yep it's not going to happen. But.. Apple doesn't really care for running legacy software so the OS can remain light in that respect.
- Rodfather
Been using eWallet for years on Pocket PC, now it works with iPhone and iPod Touch. If you need a place to securely manage all your web passwords on the go (256-bit AES encryption) or at the desktop, this app is a winner.
- TDavid
from Bookmarklet
I'd like to know the same... how does this compare to 1Password?
- Joe Perrin
@Brad big difference: eWallet for PC desktop only, 1Password is tightly integrated with Apple keychain. On the Mac you might want to compare SplashID to 1Password.
- TDavid
Here's a blog post comparing SplashID and 1Password for Mac users (not by me): http://halfpie.net/article... -- SplashID will sync across both Mac and Windows. This reviewer gave SplashID 3 stars and 1Password 4 stars.
- TDavid
"...In fact, a few [potential employers] have even told me that they decided against hiring me simply because I've worked in tech support at a call center for the last two years."
- Joe Perrin
from Bookmarklet
Since I'm in tech support I'm not sure if I 'like' this post, but I certainly found it interesting.
- Aaron Krug