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Don’t Trust the Cloud? Backup Your Social Network with SocialSafe

Don’t Trust the Cloud? Backup Your Social Network with SocialSafe

2011-06-30
Source: Singularity Hub


It’s months before Facebook’s IPO, but you can protect the investment you’ve made in the social network now. Startup SocialSafe is building itself to be the all-in-one tool you need to backup your data from the social media sites you’ve joined. Currently the Adobe AIR based program allows you to download and store information on your computer for Facebook and Twitter, but they are planning to add LinkedIn, YouTube, Vimeo, and many more. Allowing users more command over their online data has a strong appeal, and while still young, SocialSafe is already protecting 33 million items for their costumers. Why trust the cloud when you can backup your data and be certain it’s safe? Watch their sales pitch and a brief introduction in the videos below. We’ve been told repeatedly that in the social network, we are the product. Is the ability to download and protect our data a step towards leveraging those goods for our own gain, or is it just a bit of swag compared to the real metadata we’ll never get to grab? A quick pitch from SocialSafe, that I’m sure will strike a chord with every Facebook addict out there:






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