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Free Lifetime Backup for GMail, Facebook & Twitter

If you are like many internet users, you use a lot of social networking sites, photo sharing sites, blog sites and cloud services. You probably backup the data on your computer regularly but what would happen to you or your business if all of a sudden you lost access to one or several of your online accounts? Could you still do business or communicate with the people you work with?

We have content and connections spread out all over the web and while many of the services we use have their own backup in place, it would reduce a lot of stress to know that all of your information from your Facebook friends list to your WordPress blog posts and comments were safely backed up in a lifestream cloud.

Backupify is a lifestream cloud backup service and what is exciting is that until January 31, 2010 they are offering FREE lifetime backup for your cloud content.

I recently lost my email data and it took my email hosting company three weeks to get my mailbox back working again. It was painful and frustrating not being able to do business as usual. It would have been helpful working with a company that specializes in backups when I was faced with this crisis.

Backupify works to backup all your online account data in one place and allows you to connect it with all of your online accounts so your backups are created automatically.

Here are the services Backupify currently supports:

• Flickr
• Twitter
• Delicious
• Zoho
• Google Docs
• Photobucket
• WordPress
• Basecamp (beta)
• Gmail (beta)
• Facebook (beta)
• FriendFeed (beta)
• Blogger (beta)
• Hotmail (beta)

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Need a Social Media Diet? Try Facebook Lite

If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the many features of Facebook, you just might want to go on a diet and try Facebook Lite which was recently released to users in the U.S. and Canada. This new version is a light weight, stripped down version of Facebook. The jury is still out on whether this new version is a winner but some users say they love the cleaner, simpler interface while others express disappointment with missing key features they have grown to love. At any rate, we can be sure these changes will impact businesses who use Facebook to reach new fans and customers. The key to surviving this shift is to optimize your Facebook Fan Page so it doesn’t get lost in the shuffle.

Facebook Lite keeps things very simple by only allowing for status updates, uploading and viewing of photo and videos, birthdays and wall messages. Even the sidebar has undergone a makeover. Ads are much less noticeable and interestingly the “People You May Know” feature remains.

Key differences between Facebook and Facebook Lite:

• Can’t Update Your Status - With Facebook Lite, you can view your pages and profile but you are not able to make updates.
• The Layout is Simple & Clean - You will notice that many of the items in the sidebar and header are stripped down to bare bone information. There are not as many distractions in Facebook Lite.
• Share and Like - Users still have the ability to ‘comment’ on posted items as well as ‘like’ posted items. Unfortunately users are not able to ’share’ posted items from their friend’s profile or their fanned pages.
• No Application Support - Users who use applications such as Mafia Wars and Farmville to enrich their Facebook experience or engage with their friends will find Facebook Lite a bit disappointing. Though there is no support for applications at this time, this does mean users don’t have to worry about viruses that are commonly spread via applications.
• No Chat - When logged into Facebook Lite, users don’t have access to the chat feature. Facebook developer are still debating whether to add this feature so only time will tell if it makes it into a future version.

I have found the new Lite version of Facebook to be a bit buggy in that sometimes I can’t get a profile to display. I guess this is to be expected when the app is still in beta. Overall the interface is simple to use and makes it easy to make quick posts and quickly catch up on your friend’s activities. Try Facebook Lite and let me know what you think by posting a comment below.