Tag: ARCHIVE

Have you ever lost your massive email database to a hard drive crash, inadvertent deletion, program failure, or monsoonal winds? Go on, it's okay to admit it; we're all friends here. Well now there's no need to let the failures of the past haunt you; now there's MailStore Home. MailStore Home is a wonderful solution for people who have a need to backup their emails in a straightforward and simple ...

Those thousands of emails in your inbox might be worth something one day. No, you can't sell them for cash, but archaeologists of the future will be able to tell a lot about the 21st century by looking at our discourse. The British Library and Microsoft are launching a project to archive millions of emails for future study. The idea is that email is the main form of written communication, ...

Many years ago, car manufacturers emphasized only new features to entice new buyers. Then some time in the early 90's car safety became important and car manufacturers put safety features top of the selling points for new model. I feel that right now Web 2.0 service providers are operating like those car manufacturers before the shift to car safety. Ever since the infant days of the internet, ...

AboutUs is a wiki directory of websites aimed at creating a free and valuable internet resource. Its entries are for the most part automatically generated, and edits are made daily. Search for your web site and it will automatically generate a page for it if it's not currently in the system. It looks as though AboutUs rips through the site entered and displays the site title and descriptions, as ...

A while ago I wrote about Yahoo's initiative to archive the current state of the web with writings, photos, videos, audio, and drawing submitted by users to teach future generations. Enter another kooky idea, projecting the images in New Mexico. Yahoo is planning on projecting the images from its time capsule project on the Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico. Although permission was denied by the ...

Google is opening up new worlds of search by launching an easier way to search and explore historical archives. Google News Archive Search creates timelines, and displays query results from time periods within the past 200 years. This is done by scanning archives of old newspapers, magazines and other publications that have never been scanned before, due to lack of spider ability of the particular ...

Do you yearn for the days of AOL 2.0? Yeah, remember how it fit lovingly in just one little 3.5" disk? That's right, a disk, not a disc, as in CD. And they gave way their fair share of them, though not enough to make a chair. Anyway, now you can relive the magic of AOL 2.0, MSN Messenger 1.0, RealPlayer G2, Nero Burning Rom 3, and all the yummy Napster 2.0 betas you can eat. It's the ...