It goes into the bit bucket, of course.

Yahoo’s announcement that it will be closing GeoCities raises concerns about the permanence and persistence of the information we entrust to others.  Their announcement follows other closings–Digital Railroad and Pownce, to mention a couple.

GeoCities has been around forever (figuratively, but nearly true in Internet years) and its product is web-pages–a base pair in the DNA of the Internet/Web.  GeoCities’s disappearance later this year begs the question, what else could be at risk once enough time goes by and a company decides it can no longer afford to foot the bill for your data…

Google’s sequential quarters of declining revenue coupled with the observation that e-mail is not the communication medium of choice for Millennials and younger, make me wonder if/when Google will become responsible for stewarding over a huge chunk of data with very low utility.

Twitter still hasn’t figure out how to make money and they’re $35M into investor’s money.  A big bailout in the form of acquisition is almost certainly their strategy now; but Google’s down, Microsoft’s down, Yahoo’s down (clearly), and Facebook has valuation problems of its own.  Old-timers (early adopters) have years of their history stored in the Twitter data cloud.

MySpace hasn’t played out as expected for News Corporation and their deal with Google ends soon.  What happens when Rupert Murdoch decides to jettison and underperforming property?

What about Flickr, YouTube, Mint…?

Luckily the bit bucket is linked to /dev/null (never gets full).