Clunky Flow

PutPlace is now in public beta. Why should you care? Well…

There’s only a few certainties in life. Death. Taxes. And the loss of stuff you’ve stored on your computer.

The loss is one thing. But the bit I really hate. Is the aftermath. When every time you think about looking for some photo or file. You get that vague feeling. That maybe it got lost in the great wipeout of 2007.

So. I know I should save myself the pain and use an automatic back up service. But I resist.

That’s because backup services just back up your stuff. And the more you stuff in there, the more inaccessible it all becomes. Until you’ve really got no idea what’s what. Until its as good as lost in some sort of amorphous blob. Out of sight and out of mind.

The only way around this is to organise your stuff beforehand. And that means gathering your stuff from all my machines. And devices. And from online locations such as Google Docs, Flickr, and YouTube.

And this means setting aside time. And getting organized. And implementing a filing strategy. One that you can commit to keeping going forward.

I don’t know about you. But if I was that kind of guy. I think I’d back up my own stuff. On a regular basis. Thanks very much.

That’s where PutPlace come in.

They backup your stuff for a charge. But they have an added service for free. And (just between you and me) its the service I’d be most happy to pay for.

The thing is Putplace backs up your stuff. And they also make a map of where all your stuff sits. Across devices like your computer and even sites like Youtube and Flickr. You scatter. They gather. They track where your stuff sits. And make a map of all your bits. And the map remains free for life. This makes it easy to know what I have and where to find it. And that’s the key thing. Because truth be toldthese days, If I can’t find something quickly. Then it might as well. Not exist.

Conor O’Neill, captured the rest of the offer nicely. As Backup 2.0

A new Irish backup utility that understands the things the others forget. Like that I have more than one PC, I have duplicated pictures and documents scattered everywhere, I have 384 kbs UP not 2Mbs, I never want to think about backup except when I need recovery and I want everything in the cloud.

They recently opened up to public beta so are looking for testers. You’ll get unlimited space (during beta). But best of all. You’ll get a really nice brid’s eye view of all your stuff. Probably for the first time in ages. And no doubt you’ll be reacquainted with some of that stuff you were sure you had lost in your own personal great wipeout of 2007.

Proud participant in the Tuesday Push.

Note on LouderVoice: If anyone else wants to do give their review of Putplace, just add two extra tags to your posts (â€?reviewâ€? and “rating=Nâ€?), register your blog feed as a FlagTag feed on LouderVoice and they’ll collect everyone’s coverage.

More reviews of the service:
Mashable
Rafe Needleman of Webware with video interview.

ReadWriteWeb
Frank Bauer
Alexia Golez
David Kelly.

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