Lum, this is for you.

I just read an interesting entry on Alice’s blog. It’s about a service in beta that will allow the users to save entire websites in a cache, so that you not only have an online bookmarking service, but also the pages saved locally. So that they remain there even if they got deleted.

The idea is a good one and Yahoo seems to have already a free service in beta without limits to what you save. I toyed with it for a while and it seems good enough but it has four crucial problems that don’t make is as useful as it could be:
– You cannot save a whole site all at once but only single pages.
– You can share the links with others, but not the links to the saved copies, so that feature is only available locally on your account.
– Still no media content available (images and such).
– The cached URLs, even in the case they were shareable, are insanely long.

It’s a shame, because I was really looking to start linking directly the cached pages instead of always have broken links everywhere on this site or on the forums.

The Hanzo:web service seems to solve all of these problems. It saves entire sites locally, it saves the media and it also seem to make all the content available publicly. But a free accounts will only allow to use a maximum of 100Mb of space. Then you’ll have to pay (and if I create different free accounts?).

I also don’t understand what they mean with 100Mb “per month”. The account says: “Your quota will be reset on the 1st of each month”. Does this mean that it’s cumulative? Will the archived pages be deleted after a set amount of time?

EDIT- Btw, it’s too late but I saved Lum (and still half broken since it doesn’t seem to go deeper than two pages *BAH*).