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Cloud Preservation, a service from Nextpoint, is a simple service for archiving data from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other web-based services. The company pitches its service as a compliance tool, but it makes sense as a storage tool for anyone that might want to have a backup of all the information they're putting into these sorts of services. The company crawls and archives pages from the service and stores them as HTML which can then be saved or exported as a PDF. Interestingly, the service can also follow links and archive the first page of each link it finds in any given feed.

Tagging. It has fundamentally changed the way we find and manage content on the Web. Take a page, an image, or a chunk of media, surround it with keywords, and allow others to do the same. Then mix that tagged content with more tagged content and suddenly context starts to form. But tagging, for all its benefits, will only get you so far. Between tagging and the content, there's the opportunity for another level of classification - brief summaries of content. And that's where Synop.it hopes to find its niche.