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By: Meredith

Meredith — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:38:17 +0000

I’m glad you’ll be able to get your content off. I used stikipad ages ago and I had the feeling then that they may not last (though I always liked their interface). This is a perfect post as my social software class goes into the final weeks on marketing and best practices.

By: amanda

amanda — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:33:54 +0000

@andrew Yeah. What’s that saying about eating your own dog food?

@David I’m still getting the DNS error, but maybe them being back just hasn’t propagated…? If I can get back in, it will be the quickest in & out with my data ever!

By: David Gammel

David Gammel — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:29:30 +0000

Looks like the site is back up now. I did note they have spam links across the bottom, which I presume they were paid for placing.

Weird to let it atrophy away like it has. If it were cashflow issues, why are they still hosting it at all?

I agree with you, past time to bail while you can still get your content out.

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:47:52 +0000

Absolutely. This is the inherent danger with relying on entirely web-based information storage services. And with many of these start-ups being entirely free, they owe nothing to the user (including fair warning, unfortunately).

Too bad you had to remember the moral the hard way!