Ma.Gnolia Data Loss, What Have We Learned?
Ma.gnolia , a social bookmarking service is down, lost all their user data and they don’t know if / when they can recover. This is as bad as it can get for any Web 2.0 service (and more importantly for users), and the backlash against Cloud services has already started. Krish will do has a
Zumodrive Launches, Forgets About Transparency
Krish wrote in December about the importance for startups to do the math early and publish their pricing: In the absence of any word about the future pricing plans, users are hesitant to put their data on these storage startups, usually offering generous amounts of storage space. Why would anyone spend their valuable time uploading […]
Live Mesh or Live Sync? Microsoft’s Branding Problem (One of Many).
Live Mesh or Live Sync? It looks like Microsoft is still suffering from chronic productitis and branditis: two competing, overlapping products are being touted today: Live Mesh is obviously not new, it was available since the spring, albeit barely live then. In the meantime it improved, can actually be installed and runs more or less […]
