backing up

The proliferation of interesting and useful online applications has put lowcost or free tools at our fingertips that enable us to brainstorm, collaborate, organize, publish, or just play with information, images and ideas. Nobody can say that "the cloud" has not opened up new possibilities for interacting with others around the planet. The marketplace is wide open and, naturally, while some online applications succeed in gaining a customer base and in fashioning a viable business model that will ensure their longevity for some time to come, others fail and fold.