Dropbox also faces competition from products like TonidoSync (http://www.tonido.com/app_sync_home.html) that allows you to use your own hardware as sync server.
Before anybody jumps on me- Yes. Tonido does support all the OSes- Windows, Mac and Linux. They have mobile apps for all the popular mobile platforms - iOS, Android, Win 7 and Blackberry. It also works on ARM powered NAS devices and supports webdav as well.
In short, one can use their mac mini or home pc as sync server or buy one of those plug devices (http://www.tonidoplug.com) that runs 24/7 consuming just 1 watt/hr.
Dropbox also faces competition from products like TonidoSync (http://www.tonido.com/app_sync_home.html) that allows you to use your own hardware as sync server.
Before anybody jumps on me- Yes. Tonido does support all the OSes- Windows, Mac and Linux. They have mobile apps for all the popular mobile platforms - iOS, Android, Win 7 and Blackberry. It also works on ARM powered NAS devices and supports webdav as well.
In short, one can use their mac mini or home pc as sync server or buy one of those plug devices (www.tonidoplug.com) that runs 24/7 consuming just 1 watt/hr.
Yes I work for Tonido. There is nothing wrong in saying we do the same stuff. If u think Tonido is irrelevant to the discussion that is your prerogative.
Tonido (http://www.tonido.com) is a pioneer in this space. They have invented the model much before opera unit. The cool thing is that Tonido also provides a decentralized openid to end users.
Firefox should buy Tonido. It will change the industry if it happens and the way people share information. I probably may be little ahead. If you think deeply it will make sense.
With Tonido you can right click any file or folder and it will create an URL for the resource. You can share the URL with anybody for download. There is no limit on file size, no uploading - completely private and secure.
* Disk is cheap and getting cheaper
* Put the user in control. Own your data.
* Privacy and paranoia
* Decentralization is important, but..
* End users won't be dorks. Must also be possible to be easy, hosted.
* Content-Addressability has so many awesome properties (validation, cachability, etc). Use it as much as possible.
* Redundancy and over-explicitness is fine. Compression will help. Redundancy and over-explicitness will be convenient for future digital archeologists, too.