Client vs. Server (Continued)
I think that Jeremy Zawodny just figured out how to build Jeff Jarvis' "Place for my stuff" really inexpensively.
If you get as many Gmail, Hotmail, and YahooMail accounts as you can, then create a virtual OS for accessing the >10GB of storage you just got for free, you'd have a huge place for your stuff.
I still think that getting to it everywhere/anywhere isn't fully solved yet.
But this is a very cool concept.
I actually did just this two days ago.
The only hiccup I ran into was that yahoo limits a single email to just 10mb of attachments, so I had to gzip some tars.
Now a really sweet VAS (value added service) would be for yahoo to combine/connect the new email storage and their under-promoted briefcase service, and then enable WebDAV(.org) access.
Btw, haven't we seen this movie before anyway?
Remember back in the day when "xDrive" and other network-based harddrive services hit the market?
Frankly what Yahoo should do is (literally!!!) buy a boat load of USB thumb drives and bundle in one year of online storage/premium email, etc.
Buy cutting out BBY/CC/CompUSA, etc. they should be able to book a nice profit, and boost paid users.
Posted by: Charlie Sierra | June 24, 2004 at 02:35 PM
Zawodny's not the only one thinking along these lines.
Posted by: Brendon J. WIlson | June 24, 2004 at 04:17 PM
Storage isn't the problem. It's bandwidth and reliability to the rendering devices, connect times, and the breadth and consistency of client software needed to render on the device sides. Being all things to all people at easy.
First nut that will be cracked will be the music cloud, by someone, maybe these guys: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5152860.html
Posted by: U S | June 25, 2004 at 08:43 AM