discussion of online backup alternatives

"The best way to publish and share your files"

bookshelves

RT @jeremie Awesome! RT Creator of Instant Messaging Protocol to Launch App Platform for Your Life via @marshallk
"Jeremie Miller is a revered figure among developers, best known for building XMPP, the open source protocol that powers most of the Instant Messaging apps in the world. Now Miller has raised funds and is building a team that will develop software aimed directly at the future of the web.

Called The Locker Project, the open source service will capture what's called exhaust data from users' activities around the web and offline via sensors, put it firmly in their own possesion and then allow them to run local apps that are built to leverage their data."

A new kind of memory from IBM Labs is promising to revolutionize how much data we can store and how fast we can access it on our mobile and desktop devices.
After spending six years as a theoretical concept, the memory, dubbed Racetrack, finally is a huge step closer to reality. Researchers at IBM have recently confirmed that their theories of the physics behind Racetrack are valid and can be used to develop and manufacture this new type of memory.
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How does Racetrack work? Unlike conventional memory, which needs to seek out the data it needs, Racetrack automatically moves the data to where it can be used. That serves to not only speed up data access but allow much more data to be stored in a smaller area.
The memory is so named because it moves the magnetic bits of data along thin, nanowire "racetracks," 1,000 times finer than a strand of hair.

AirDropper lets Dropbox users securely request a file from anyone.

"Send files to your Habilis email address and they show up in your Dropbox.com dropbox a few seconds later - simple! It's dead handy for devices like the iPad where you can create documents but can't easily get them into your Dropbox."

Redis

uses S3

We present Scalaris, an Erlang implementation of a distributed key/value store. It uses, on top of a structured overlay network, replication for data availability and majority based distributed transactions for data consistency. In combination, this implements the ACID properties on a scalable structured overlay.

time machine cmd line utility

Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing structured data while providing reliability at a massive scale.

Command-line tool by Robert Pointon, “allows basic cvs style operations on Time Machine volumes.”

provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all.

jungle disk online manual

...Wouldn't it be cool if the simple act of plugging in one of your USB Flash Keys or Firewire Hard Drives caused the backup to happen?

S3Infinidisk bridges this gap, allowing an EC2 instance to use S3 like a real Linux filesystem.

currently PC-only