I wrote about “social backup” provider Zoogmo back in 2007. At that time, they summed up their service as follows: “With Zoogmo you get FREE unlimited backup that automatically runs in the background and lets you protect your data at multiple remote locations that YOU choose.” I wondered then about their business model. It now seems possible they didn’t have one, because I just received the … [Read more...]
Peer-to-Peer Viral Backup: Cucku 2.0 Definitely Scores Points for Imagination
Cucku didn’t invent “social backup,” but they are, to the best of my knowledge, the only backup provider that uses Skype’s peer-to-peer network to transfer your files to your chosen partner’s computer. This is both original and clever. Partnering with Skype not only saves them building their own network, it brings them to the attention of Skype’s millions of users (more than 10 million of them … [Read more...]
Zoogmo Follow-Up
Dov Sugarman from Zoogmo answered some of the questions I posed in Friday's writeup in his comment on the post, and also provided me some help with connecting to a backup partner and testing the backup and restore features. For the beta period, at least, there's a “dummy partner” set up to let people test the system. When I selected “MyZoogmo” as a backup partner, I got a dialog box asking me … [Read more...]
Connecting Your Backups: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 08-24-07
Apologies for the late posting of this week's reminder. I had to attend a 4-hour business meeting in the middle of writing it, and I had too many appointments this week to write it in advance. "Those pesky clients," as I sometimes jokingly call them, remain my priority. I've been popular this week: three different companies have asked me to write about their products and services. Rather than … [Read more...]
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