Stories, Pictures Lost Forever

This is a very real problem that will only escalate, as we use more and more web applications.

For instance, I don't know how to save my data from ClipMarks. If an account is canceled, do all my links and Clips to blogs die. These are important issues to discuss.

clipped from www.portigal.com Stories, lost forever Thursday January 10th 2008, 2:58 am by Steve Portigal As I’ve already blogged, I was the victim of a phishing scam and my flickr account was deleted. Yahoo/flickr has known about this particular culprit for a year or so. miscreant deleted my account, just for fun. And Yahoo can’t restore it. We all know there are backup copies all over the place, but they can only recreate my account, blank. all the people I’ve linked to are gone (I’ve spent a few hours trying to reconnect with those I can remember). Anyone who watched my photos via their contacts has lost me (and I’ve lost much of my audience). All the titles, tags, geotags, view counts and comments are gone. All the descriptions and stories and dialog with others in is gone. My document, my story, my part of the community, is gone. DataPortability is a movement to create these tools where they don’t exist. I hope someone creates something for flickr soon.