Comments on: Wuala Invitations Now Available on InviteShare

By: nick of cebu

nick of cebu — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:55:33 +0000

What a clever idea. By the way, I love the logo. And the domain name.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:49:10 +0000

Opps, sorry.
How about you guys?

By: AnonTroll

AnonTroll — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:34:18 +0000

What happens if one or several of the hard drives crashed?

By: xxdesmus

xxdesmus — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:08 +0000

Wuala is absolute crap. Don’t bother, really.

By: AK

AK — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:48:41 +0000

I didnt like its logo…. [yike!]
actually it took me a while to understand what it is…
I thought it is something in arabic.
After all my thinking is to keep things simple, why to add complication even in case of Logos!!

By: mikebe

mikebe — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:48:34 +0000

Is that logo in arabic?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:26:39 +0000

@James
But what happens when your house burns down. Your local save is also in hell. But not with wuala. Your data is saved on many many HDD’s the same time. Like a Raid 10 and that’s for free. I love wuala.
And wenn the new writing rules came, I will love it even more!

By: Lin

Lin — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:11:40 +0000

Steve Ballmer says: Got mine! How about you gays?

Geesh. How did you know?!?!?!

Anywho…so what happens when somebody’s hard drive dies? Where’s the backup of the data you backed up elsewhere that you now don’t control?

Better yet, go out and buy your own portable hard drive to backup up your own data and don’t rely on services that you have no control over…like wuala.

By: James Gardiner

James Gardiner — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:00:06 +0000

Mark,
This is an interesting idea. I personally have been throwing it around for 3-4 years. My conclusion on it is that it’s more likely to become an open source tool people download. Point it at a group of locations/friends or whatever that wants to keep backups off site and in secure locations.
Charging a service for this is also an options, but if you don’t have to you won’t. It’s not hard tech either so.. I see open source tools falling into place.

But really, this solution is waiting for the network to become more commoditized. No upload/download limits etc. That’s when it will truly take off.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:15:11 +0000

Got mine! How about you gays?

virb.com/balm

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:55:39 +0000

Waste of time Arrington. Start covering companies with great idea, not those of your friends or those who have been referred to you

By: YDRIVE

YDRIVE — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:28:46 +0000

peer-to-peer… hmmm…

By: Live Crunch

Live Crunch — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:28:18 +0000

I will try out , i also wrote about xdrive and google online storage that is going to be released in 2008 i think Backup Storage Launching by Google

By: Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay Kolev — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:26:41 +0000

No, thanks!

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:17:58 +0000

I don’t know about Wuala, but I’m signing up for my “WISLS” account now!

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:05:57 +0000

There’s too much competition out there for worst web2.0 name, but this is the hands-down winner for worst logo. Rule #1 of logos, there shouldn’t be any mystery as to what they say.

By: I blog about everything!

I blog about everything! — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:03:58 +0000

This looks like a pretty good idea!
I wonder what the upload speeds are like though…

@Larry, it’s not file sharing, it’s a backup exchange!

PS the link goes to a parked domain

By: A.C.

A.C. — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:30:59 +0000

You should really change the link, it’s leading to a parked domain.

By: Larry Velez

Larry Velez — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:13:45 +0000

How is this different from Napster and Kazaa and wouldn’t it get shut down for the same reasons? “facilitating piracy”

By: mpeg

mpeg — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:12:45 +0000

it’s http://wua.la

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:12:35 +0000

Technology is starting to ramp into a new cycle. I’ve seen some very interesting roll out over the past few weeks. Perhaps a good time to introduce products into the market do to all the noise occurring, unless you are facebook.

I’m sure that Homeland Security and the NSA are quite thrilled to hear about this new offering. Not!

Now I look forward to seeing people post that this has been around for decades and this and that…….geez