I am a big fan of Google Docs and I store quite a number of documents there so that I can access them from where ever I have an internet connection. I don’t store anything too sensitive like my bank account details etc.
If Google disappeared over night I would miss all those documents and it would take too much time to download each doc one by one. Well now Google have added an export feature where you can export all the documents into one handy zip file. Go do that backup today! Here are the step-by-step instructions:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/10/export-google-docs.html
This opens the whole discussion of storing your data in the "cloud".
Do you fully trust the cloud services you use? Is your only copy of your data stored in the cloud? Would you miss all your email if your email provider disappeared overnight ?
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The Irish Microsoft Technology Conference will be held in Dublin on June 7th and will host a wide range of speakers including Tim Sneath from Microsoft. The sessions will cover topics such as:
- Building Silverlight Applications using .NET
- Visual Studio “Orcas” and AJAX
- Microsoft Expression Studio
- SDLC the Team System way
and lots more. Here is the full agenda.
The conference is organised by MTUG (Microsoft Technology User Groups of Ireland) and IrishDev.com in association with Microsoft Ireland.
The price of the conference is only EUR50 including lunch. You can’t really beat that!
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Techcrunch is reporting that Feedburner is to be bought out by Google. I use Feedburner on this blog to track usage and stats on my rss feed. It is a very popular service amongst bloggers so I’m not surprised that Google has decided to purchase them. It will be interesting to see how the service changes over the next months, will it be rebranded, will the service offering expand ? We’ll have to wait and see.
$100 Million Payday For Feedburner – This Deal Is Confirmed
Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by Google for around $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly upfront, according to our source, although the founders will be locked in for a couple of years.
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