So I read many of the posts on this after I saw Mike Arrington’s take over on Tech Crunch and at first I could not really figure out what to make of it, but now I know. Putting aside the business model of monetizing their internal expertise of creating highly reliable server ecosystems, I now see the real practicality of being able to have a trusted, reliable server backend to hold all my Web services data – particularly given the long tail of single developer web services that may never make much of themselves, but I digress.
My first thought was this could be a great backup system for my files. I already have 2 mostly dead backup hard drive I need to recover data from, so we need to do something about this fast. But as I went through my daily ritual of browsing and filing away a few of my email newsletters for future search capabilities, I saw exactly what I need from S3.
Someone should create a Web service that accepts an email from a list or digest and archives it within S3 for future searching. I know this is a lot like Usenet, but perhaps it is UseNet 18.0? The storage and bandwidth would need to be paid for somehow, and I have some ideas on this if anyone is interesting in pursuing it. Or perhaps someone can use the API’s from the Internet Archive to host such content databases there instead. Regardless, this is something I would really like to see happen soon so I can unsubscribe from all these email newsletters I am personally archiving in Entourage and know I can still get access to the collective wisdom they contain at some later point in time.
Of course this also implies that we need an improved search interface to go with it – but that is what Insytes is for…
Technorati Tags: freeideas, freeideas=chrisheuer, Amazon, Web2.1
#1 by s3backup - March 27th, 2006 at 07:59
backup utility for s3:
http://digg.com/software/Backup_your_files_to_Amazon_s_S3_with_S3backup