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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Aug 9, 2013 at 01:05 PM
Alexander, I was most disappointed when Twine closed down.
However, Twine did provide advance notice, and instructions on how to download data.
What was most unfortunate about Twine is that Nova Spivack had developed a truly unique way for curators (before that term was in common use online) to create collections of information on topics of interest to them.
While it may be said that other programs do that more or less, I am aware of nothing which permitted the kind of depth which Twine did. In any event Spivack sold Twine to an outfit which was to use Twine technology to make their own offerings better. I never saw evidence of that happening.
Evri, the company to which Spivack sold Twine, eventually went belly up.
Any how, I am way off topic, and still missing Twine. Nova, if you’re reading this, perhaps consider bringing Twine back.
Daly
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
MadaboutDana wrote:
>>Not entirely fair to Catch! They do offer various ways of exporting all
>>your notes, and I’ve successfully done so to e.g. Evernote.
>
>I’d say that there are three levels of support provided by vendors of
>web services who go out of business or change direction, to their users:
>
>1. Do nothing, i.e. one day users enter the website to find an “end of
>service” announcement and have no access to their data anymore.
>Examples: Peerpong, Twine.
>
>2. Provide a way to download one’s data, but with no direct route for
>re-using it. Examples: Catch.com, Google Notebook.
>
>3. Provide a simple route to migrate to another service. Examples:
>Astrid, Amplify.
>
>Then there are third parties who might step in to help the disillusioned
>userbase. Example: Evernote providing a migration utility for Google
>Notebook users.
>
>I hope this is more fair :-)
Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 9, 2013 at 03:59 PM
Impressively fair - in fact, a nicely ranked analysis of typical die-offs.
Dearie me. If all these extinctions aren’t a good argument in favour of the hybrid Cloud, I don’t know what is!
Reminds me of two bits of hardware I’ve been looking at: SanDisk’s new Wireless Media Drive (a very elegant, portable micro-server) and Drobo’s (or rather, ConnectedData’s) new Transporter device, which does for hardware what Dropbox does for software. Apparently the newer version of the Transporter software will make it pretty much equivalent to Dropbox, but entirely private.
These are “private Cloud” solutions I like the sound of!
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 9, 2013 at 05:45 PM
Thanks for the heads up on these hardware solutions.
And, of course, it is now possible to create one’s own web applications if they are so inclined. Among others, check out Qrimp http://www.qrimp.com/home.html which might well have been named as a tribute to this here forum :-)
(Steve Z., having introduced the term CRIMP to the webography, if you haven’t still received your royalty check, you might want to claim it…)
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 10, 2013 at 10:36 AM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>(Steve Z., having introduced the term CRIMP to the webography, if you
>haven’t still received your royalty check, you might want to claim
>it…)
Just waiting for our definition of CRIMP to get into the Oxford English Dictionary. Long wait!
Posted by Ken
Aug 12, 2013 at 11:56 PM
I am going to spare a long post about my disappointment as I really liked Catch’s design and cross-platform compatibility and cut right to the chase. My initial response is that I have two easy to implement options. First, I can start using Evernote, as I have it on my Anadroid phone and iPad. Second, I can find an Android client that syncs with Simplenote. The former gives me an interface that I never really liked, and possible concerns about exporting my data (if that is still an issue). The latter leaves me with searching for a reliable Android App, and the concern that was raised here about possible data loss (also reported in some reviews as well).
I am open to comments as well as any other similar cross-platform programs (including web access).
Very frustrating, as their closure comes at a time when I need to be focusing on other software issues in need of attention.
—Ken