Gmail Outage and the Benefit of Synchronization (or Backup)
Gmail appears to have another outage today. While reports of the outage surfaced on Twitter hours ago, Google’s status board indicated all was OK, until about 15 minutes ago, when this update appeared: 2:16pm: We’re aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are unable to access […]
Care For Your Personal Data In the Cloud
The recent magnolia-scandal brought back concerns about data backup and service quality from the back of the mind of many users. I know how important these issues are but like most users I blindly trust most new services with my data. Most services offer data export such as Delicious or synchronization such as Gmail provides. […]
Magnolia Effect – Should We Trust The Clouds?
Image via CrunchBase Today, the bookmarking service Ma.gnolia announced that they have lost all the data due to data corruption. They may not even be able to recover the data completely, thereby, depriving users of the bookmarks they saved on their service. Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 31st, Ma.gnolia experienced every web […]
Ma.Gnolia Data Loss, What Have We Learned?
Ma.gnolia , a social bookmarking service is down, lost all their user data and they don’t know if / when they can recover. This is as bad as it can get for any Web 2.0 service (and more importantly for users), and the backlash against Cloud services has already started. Krish will do has a
Trust the Cloud, but Have a Backup Plan. Google Lockouts are not Fun.
Just about every few month we get a high-profile case of someone getting shut out of their Gmail and other Google services. Google is notorious for freezing accounts without a warning, often in the users defence, i.e. when they detect probability of hacking. When you’re Loren Baker, Editor of Search Engine Journal and blog about […]
