Nifty Idea of the day: hanzo:web
Now this is a really interesting thing: hanzo:web, a ‘social webarchiving service‘. What it is, is a mix between a site to store your Bookmarks (’Favorites’, to you stubborn and spyware-ridden Internet Explorer users) so they’re accessible from any computer, and the Internet Archive, keeping a full archived copy of the bookmarked site available, so that if the original site goes down or is changed, you can see exactly what it looked like when you bookmarked it.
That’s pretty handy, I gotta say. Especially for folk like me, who day in and day out trawl technical blogs, which sometimes have a nasty tendency of being there one day, and being down the next when their maintaner gets bored with them. However, I can see it working handily for the pr0n-hounds among you: surfing for pr0n and you find something nice, you can use hanzo:web to not only bookmark the site, but cache a full copy of it in case the site goes away, as many pr0n sites do. 
From their website:
Reliable access
Hanzo servers continually crawl the web as directed by you, archiving your chosen sites and providing free access to the archives forever. Even if you cancel your account, the archive content will remain, as will your access to it.
Respect for content
All archived pages, links and sites are stored exactly as they appeared on the web. Pictures, objects, links and flash are all retained as they are, preserved as originally conceived.
Durability
Hanzo stores all archived content and user metadata in open web archive standards-based formats.
I just got my beta login today, and I’ll be playing around with it, see what I think. There’s a few different service levels, from the free one which allows you to archive around 100MB per month, to more advanced ones that allow you to archive from 1 to 10 GB per month. And the cool thing is that even if you discontinue the service, the sites you’ve archived remain archived pretty much forever, so they’re never lost, no matter what. Lots of promise here.
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