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Many online services do not offer the means to backup data locally. Users who want to backup data are usually left with a tedious manual process (like downloading pictures or videos one by one)

Filed under: Internet , Productivity , Google , Social Software , web 2.0 , Web Google Reader has released some useful features to help you share stories to your favorite social networks. Also, thanks to the folks at Digital Inspiration , there’s a nifty tool where you can save a story in Google Reader as a PDF to your desktop

Filed under: Web services , web 2.0 , Op-Ed , Microblogging Pear Analytics asks on their website, “Have you measured the impact of social media on your brand?” Apparently that’s what they do. And they’ve been busily analyzing what goes on over at Twitter. The super shocking results: just over 40% of tweets qualify as ” pointless babble .” Following in second place are “conversational” updates, at 37.5%

Filed under: Games , Google , Social Software , web 2.0 iGoogle is a pretty decent homepage, with a wide selection of gadgets to choose from. You can add Gmail, Google Calendar, weather, RSS feeds and more to your homepage.

Filed under: Social Software , web 2.0 A large number of Facebook users received a message yesterday, telling them they’d been invited to test something called Facebook Lite . The messages turned out to be an accident, and the users who received them couldn’t sign up.

Filed under: Internet , Social Software , web 2.0 Facebook announced the next round of changes and additions to their “Statement of Rights and Responsibilities,” — the terms of service document that governs — the popular social networking website. The document has received some criticism in the past (ahem). One of the more interesting changes?