Do you trust web-based office applications?

[mandy]

If you walk the Web 2.0 walk, there’s a strong attraction to the notion of keeping your data “in the cloud” - that is, using web-based applications to manage everything. From e-mail to appointments to project management to time-tracking to invoicing to document management to party invitations, there’s really no need to use any application on your own computer other than a browser these days. But there’s a hidden danger to this lifestyle: who’s backing the data up in case something goes wrong?

That recently became an important question for a bunch of users of Google’s Personalized Home Page service, who logged on to discover their personalizations (in some cases rather extensive) had vanished...

full article: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/04/27/do-...the-cloud/