JoinHangouts allows you to create and participate of public Google+ hangouts
Let´s supose you like chatting by audio, video, and meet interesting people around the world. You can do this now using Google Plus hangouts, however, if you do not have friends like you that enjoy chat by video, it is hard to start a successful hangout because ONLY your friends will see your public hangout.
JoinHangouts.com it is a web applications to spread the word, expanding the visibility of your public hangout to other people beyond your circles.
It is easy to set-up.
1. Start a public hangout.
2. Paste your profile URL. You can find it log in your Google account and visit http://www.google.com/profiles. You will be redirected to your profile page. Copy this URL to the first field.
3. Fill the main subject (can left blank to free talk).
4. Provide the preferred language and click the “Send” button.
That’s it! Now just wait people to join your hangout!
Or maybe you can check if some hangout is open just looking the list below the form.
Twitter is down, point for Jaiku
Twitter is down because a hacker DoS (denial-of-service) attack. Maybe it’s time for the Jaiku (the Google Twitter) counter-strike?
Life’s files
Earlier, in 90′s, you have some files to backup, 50, maybe 200 MB maximum. It’s easy. Record on CDs, Zip Disks, DVDs and so on. Until now.
Your life became more active, more online. Just more dynamic, hyperlinked. Without realyze, your life is beeing upload to the Internet. Hundreds, Thousands photos, videos. Profiles borns around the globe. Digital life is a need you never know that exists. Social websites fill this need. Your tastes, secrets and jobs leaves you mind, spreading through the world.
Your blog posts is what you think. His comments, what they think and how they interact. Your e-mails, your secrets. Gigabytes of information flying out there, and it is just your life. Everyone has a public life. Dot. Mails are not secrets to the mail server administrators, not foolish yourself. All your online photos it’s public, even the “private” ones. You are public now. What matter is, what the size of YOUR life? Some dozens of MB? Or some hundreds of GB? How many information you have on your computer? What happens if you lost all of it? Your main storage media maybe has all what you have online plus much more! Think what you do not have online, exclude the videos, the musics, the games. Probably will remais just a few GBs. And THAT must be save forever, exatly as you do with your digital life until now, but in a more specific way.
Backuping you on DVDs is good, but not fully safe. You can lost the media, or it can deteriorate and not work anymore. The solution is to choose a free online backup service, on a traditional company like iDrive or Microsoft. They have excellent backup services where you can save your life in case of disasters, like the lost of all your work.
Think that.
Links:
iDrive free backup service
Microsoft free backup service
Mozy (thanks to @aerreira68)
