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Scripting News: Internet fallout from the crashing market (Scripting News)

  • logicalextremes · 1 year ago
    Good time to backup your user-created content from all of your services [and, put in place a system for keping it regularly backed up]. Some services are great and will export nice open formats. For others, the best you can do may be to save complete HTML pages.
  • mariva · 1 year ago
    Excellent idea. Any tips on doing this for Yahoo mail?
  • alain · 1 year ago
    upgrade to Yahoo! plus mail ($20/year) and then set up a POP3 account and download everything to your Outlook or preferred email desktop client. Then back it all up to a portable drive. Your other option is to install IzyMail or YPOPS!: http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpresstips/qt...
  • logicalextremes · 1 year ago
    Yahoo Mail Classic (free) unfortunately doesn't have POP, IMAP, or bulk forwarding. So you're left with either individually saving or forwarding, or upgrading to Mail Plus ($20/yr) and POPing everything. Maybe someone knows a way to script Yahoo webmail. iPhone will download messages from a Yahoo webmail account.
  • Gregor Rothfuss · 1 year ago
    http://www.freepops.org/en/ allows you to scrape your Yahoo mail. It worked ok for the emails that I wanted to liberate about two years ago. It is quite sad that a company who put openness onto their banner is holding user data hostage.
  • JoshMiller · 1 year ago
    I've already set up a Twitter feed backup to a wordpress blog. My Flickr photos are all also on my local hard drives and I host my website myself. I use Godaddy as a registrar so I'm not too worried about them dropping out, heck Flickr is owned by Yahoo so they probably aren't going anywhere either, only Twitter is a service I'd be disappointed to see fail. Maybe Picnik but Picnik doesn't store anything itself.
  • Andrew · 1 year ago
    You gotta wonder how many Facebook / Yahoo! / etc companies are looking at rising hosting costs, lower share values, less interest in advertising and lower revenues, and no end in sight and are regretting not taking offers while they were around.

    Hopefully they can last the long haul through this - but I can't imagine many toga parties on the company dime.
  • bconnell · 1 year ago
    If companies do start tanking, how long before people go back to hosting their own websites in their basements? Or the return of internet appliances?
  • JoshMiller · 1 year ago
    I already host my website from my home. This is part of why I'm not overly worried about losing my content.