Google engineers are searching for how to return the videos, images, email, calendar, documents and more that disappeared from around 500,000 users’ accounts. Sure, this is only 0.29% of all Google accounts, but those 500,000 or so are feeling rather ill right now.

The answer for the future may be to diversify the online and cloud services that you use and back up. Use OneBox, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Linkedin, Amazon Web Services, Sales Force, and/or open source Feng Office, ThinkFree, StarOffice or how about Zoho Corp?

The last one … Zoho … includes an online office productivity suite with not only word processor, spreadsheet and presentation apps, but also includes online project management, CRM solutions, web conferencing, online database with reports, online planner, group chat, wiki, and lots more. It also includes a plug-in for MS Office so you can work both online or offline. Techistan Team recently interviewed Raju Vegesna about Zoho services.

DebontheRocks on Blogher advises, “ Find yourself weeping in a puddle of Ben & Jerry’s watching You’ve Got Mail. Damn that perky Meg Ryan! She would never lose all of her mail, would she, WOULD SHE?  Why you?!?!?  Go ahead, cry it out, baby, cry it OUT.”

Ironic also that the most recent email in the Gmail account of Techistan’s VP has this title: XO launches UC in the cloud. She still really enjoys Google Suite.

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