Comments on: Box.net Announces Funding, 500K Registered Users

By: When Funding Spoils Startups| Zoli’s Blog

When Funding Spoils Startups| Zoli’s Blog — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:56:12 +0000

[...] suspect Box.net may now have real offices, having received funding from DFJ, but somehow I don’t see them spending that $1.5M on luxuries. Certainly no reserved [...]

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Mosoto: Share Files and Chat on Facebook — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:09:54 +0000

[...] within the chat roster, you can share files with your friends using a free 1GB Box.net account. You can share and open files like pictures, songs, and videos using their in-browser file [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:43:30 +0000

I have found that Box.Net is very useful for storage of important backups online and documents that I want to finish at home and vice versa. Thanks for a great online tool.

By: john

john — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:01:30 +0000

When Mark Cuban completely bails on you, that is not a good sign:) Good luck

By: jkg

jkg — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:16:23 +0000

I’ve been a box.net customer for maybe 6-9 months. I like ‘em. They’ve been very reliable for my needs.

The one annoyance I have with the service is the fact that yes, I can publish direct links to my files on a web site, but the file names are all converted to random hash characters. So my file ‘bobs_big_dj_mix.mp3′ becomes ‘xywhelrkjasdf.mp3′ or something similar. Kind of annoying.

By: Paim

Paim — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:12:15 +0000

Even though I don’t use it as importantly as most people (i usually use it to store files from school to finish at home) its still a good service for me, especially just typing in ‘box’ in my url and it coming up

Wish I had $1.5mil lol

By: Stephen Fowler

Stephen Fowler — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:47:06 +0000

Thanks for the email Aaron, just want to put a positive comment up before I move on.

I do like box net and have passed on a few referals as I believe that having a virtual c drive is neccessary, I have lost so much data over the years with the odd virus and re install of windows.

So I will be glad when you get sorted with some extra staff, maybe I should offer my services.

Best of luck, I am staying all my hard drive says so.

By: aaron

aaron — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:33:38 +0000

@Stephen - Just shot you an email. In fact, this is one important spot the $1.5 is going towards: staffing! We’ve been just a small team for a while now, but we’re making all the necessary hires to respond to the demands (support, features, feedback) of a growing userbase. Thanks!

By: Stephen Fowler

Stephen Fowler — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:39:39 +0000

I use box and I have found it a little fustrating, particulary as I have a paid account I cannot now download the files and whats worse they have not responded to my emails for the last 4 days. Is it a case we have $1.5 million and we dont care!!!

By: FreeUSB

FreeUSB — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:38:57 +0000

I guess $1.5 million won’t help Box.net a lot, esp. they also bought the shares of Mark Cuban back… assume Cuban made some money, then Box.net is almost out of cash already and need for a second round funding very quickly.

Anyway, I am not a fan of Box.net. The thin feature and the kiddy interface is for teens, not for real businesses. For real businesses, DriveHQ is no doubt the best place to go. Their client software is generations ahead of Box.net, it supports group sharing, automatic backup and folder synchronization. These features are just amazingly well designed and easy-to-use. The web interface is also 10 times better than Box.net. From a usability / performance point of view, you can hardly put 100 files on Box.net, but you can easily copy 10,000 files to DriveHQ!

By: xin Chen

xin Chen — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:38:55 +0000

Gbaopan is the most popular web stroage provider in China which just hits 1 million users mark. Gbaopan.net is its english version which also provides 1G free storage. It is really a Web 2.0 service of an East flavor. It would be interesting to see whether people in the West like and accept it.

http://www.gbaopan.net (English)
http://www.gbaopan.com (Chinese)

By: Vonton

Vonton — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:02:54 +0000

Ah! damn
im from India and i always got a ‘registrations closed off for now’ message when i tried to signup.
i just checked the link again via a proxy and the signup page is on.

strange, box.net not for Indian users?

By: Vonton

Vonton — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:57:41 +0000

Their registrations have been closed off from a long time.
https://www.box.net/signup

By: Vik

Vik — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:02:36 +0000

This blog post states that Box.net had 4600 paying members in Feb., 2006. http://undertheradarblog.com/2006/02/21/boxnet/

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:22:11 +0000

I personally am a big fan of Streamload - which has changed its name to MediaMax. There software is a little rough - but 100 times better than the original stuff (which was very bare bones). The web interface is decent and 25 GB is a nice chunk of space.

By: Living in a Box: Box.net Gets Funded | The Last Podcast

Living in a Box: Box.net Gets Funded | The Last Podcast — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:27:55 +0000

[...] 23rd, 2006 · No Comments My favorite online storage company Box.net announced a $1.5 million Series A funding round today.TechCrunch has the details on the deal. I have regularly used they free 1GB plan for a long time now and I could not be happier. I mainly use it as offsite backup of Word documents and it works like a charm. The fact that they are nicely integrated into Netvibes is another plus. With giving 1GB a month away, though, I don’t think I will ever need to upgrade to a paid plan, which might not be quite what they had in mind - and with no advertising, monetizing this service might be a bit tough in the long run. [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Box.net、資金調達と登録ユーザー数50万人達成を発表

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Box.net、資金調達と登録ユーザー数50万人達成を発表 — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:03:17 +0000

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By: shokal

shokal — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:31:36 +0000

4M Streamload users sounds like the reason their support is only virtual and their download rates remind me the days of dial-up. Box.net looks neet and I have’nt tried it. They should maintain high service quality if they want to grow.

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:53:35 +0000

Hey robert - I would love to chat about this with you.

BoxUser - yes, we saw this as an issue shortly after we launched the program; registrations from non-unique IPs and other suspicious registrations were not included in this number.

By: Johnkimble

Johnkimble — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:50:55 +0000

I love box.net in embedded in my netvibes homepage! Easy access to my files from anywhere.

Wow, 500k registered users ain’t bad!

By: BoxUser

BoxUser — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:44:30 +0000

i wonder if they are counting all the fake accounts created so people could upgrade their own account to get more storage.

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:39:42 +0000

BTW… Google and Microsoft were never “acquired”

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:39:12 +0000

Dave,

It’s about data access, control, and the fact that data should be universally accessible by everyone. Perhaps it’s not a good acquisition, but web-based storage IS the future.

We just need something to tie it all together, and we need these companies to be less proprietary. For example, the same devices that are designed to connect to GDrive should be able to connect to Box.net or Amazon S3 - no boundaries.

By: JL

JL — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:33:25 +0000

I really like box.net. I always had problems with StreamLoad being offline, unresponsive or just plain buggy. Box.net seems solid, particularly since their recent upgrades in infrastructure. I hope they continue to add service plans that include more space ( as I have maxed mine out). In addition, a higher end SMB offering would be interesting.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:28:22 +0000

1 gig is a bit paltry, though certainly enough for anybody to post music files from a local collection to share privately without the tedious ftp process or indie p2p tools, though pando and others have a better shot - imho - at taking a backdoor into collaboration….

and again, what are the odds that these firms will survive? with every major player developing online storage options, and no acquisition prospects, what’s the point?