

Apps born in the era of Web 2.0 are great. They are easier to use, much cheaper to buy (often free), and the rate which they come out really excites me. It's like having Christmas every week or something. Brilliant stuff.
However, recently, I got rather worried/paranoid about the whole thing. I actively use more than 20 different apps/sites/services/things. I put my photos, my sound files, docs and everything on these sites. It's kind of scary that all over the past year or so my digital life's become pretty much entirely third party dependent. And that scares me.
What if, say Flickr goes bust tomorrow (unlikely now that it's been brought by Yahoo) ,where will my pics go? Yes, I should probably back my stuff up in local drives and such, but I don't - cos I'm lazy. Now multiply this by 20 other sites - I'm really quite screwed.
I reckon there's probably a market for companies to help people backup stuff from disparate sources. You will pass over your access codes and they'll backup the stuff for you. Bit like a digital version of warehouse storages. Obviously, to differentiate itself from yet another volitile web 2.0 business, it must be credit worthy, has scale and all that other stuff you would use to assess a brick and mortar businesses. May be a traditional bank can take on this role?