Eternos

A while ago I posted about Lifestream backup which makes a backup of your online life at facebook, twitter, wordpress, photobucket, etc. (Seems they have been renamed to "backupify"). Another entry in this space is Eternos "

Eternos supports backup of Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, Blogs, and RSS feeds. You can see your posts in attractive timelines. One interesting twist they have is dealing with your data when you die: they let you designate trustees that will gain access to your account "upon confirmation you have passed on."

The Data Liberation Front

Previously, I noted that LifeStream helps you get back your captive data from sites like facebook and twitter. Now there is a movement inside google to help people get their data, aptly named the Data Liberation Front. Viva the liberation!

The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products.  We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product.  We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" their products.  This is our mission statement:

Users should be able to control the data they store inany of Google's products. Our team's goal is to make it easier for them to move data in and out.

Lifestream Backup rescues your stranded e-memories

In Total Recall, we bemoan web sites that have a stranglehold on your online e-memories. If it is not easy to make a copy of everything they store, then you are at the site’s mercy to retain your e-memories. Sites go out of business, or may just be sloppy with your data and lose some. Then, it is goodbye blog post, email, bookmark and so on. A manual process for each item would be way too much work to be practical; it must be one-step for a full backup, or, even better, fully automatic.

Enter the entrepreneurs. Lifestream Backup makes a backup of your online life at facebook, twitter, wordpress, photobucket, and more. You provide your login credentials for each service, and then they make regular backups, sending you an email to confirm when each backup is complete. They use Amazon S3 to store the backup, and also allow you to download the backup to your PC for extra protection.

Hat tip to cnet