Dan G

Take, for example, Adpinion. An interesting new startup where readers rate the ads they see on websites, so the adverts served to them become more and more relevant -- clever stuff.

However Adpinion has started a blog called Button of Judgement (named after the thumbs up/thumbs down button on their ads). In three days this January they made three (good) posts, and then nadda, nothing, zip. That doesn't inspire confidence in their product! How can I trust them to maintain their service, when they can't even maintain their own blog?

I found Adpinion through Paul Stamatiou, who writes a great nerd blog.

Hell I would. Here I back up my families' and my own data across all our machines in different locations ("lots of copies keeps stuff safe"; more on that later), but really few people do that. Most have their data on one computer -- vulnerable to fire, theft, accidental damage, simple mechanical failure, you name it.

By comparison a remote server adminstered by Google will have *lots* of back-up systems covering it. I'd say that's a lot safer.