Web app continuity
With the financial crisis and all, now's a good time to look at the web apps you use and rely on, and put a continuity plan in place. We're not at the bottom of the market yet, so many of those start-ups without a solid revenue model, and offering compelling reasons to continue using their services, just may not be around in six or twelve months time. And you may not get much warning. 
So, where possible, export your data and back it up, ideally in a standard text, CSV, or XML format that you can wrangle -- with various degrees of difficulty -- into a usable format elsewhere. At a time like this, open data is more than a privacy issue, it's may be a survival issue if that data is critical to your personal or business life. Failing that, getting hold of the source code may be a fallback if there is someone who can get it up and going long enough to get the data out. Think about any hosting you use as well. Make sure you have your digital assets backed up, including config files, images, htaccess files and so on.
I'm thinking about the things I use regularly, and which of them have the best margin to business failure, and which I care about.
- Flickr (Yahoo!)
- Delicious
- SimpleGTD
- Bloglines
- Posterous
- Evernote
- NuevaSync
- etc.
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