Oosah is a self-described “media management system” with a simple-sounding intention: to serve as a one-stop shop for managing all of your online video, image, and audio files. This idea doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in isolation, so Oosah is using the Web 2.0 Expo this week to release a set of integrations with other services.
The new integrations allow you to drag-n-drop files between Oosah, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, and Picasa. The Oosah site itself is essentially a free 2GB online storage service with a snazzy, browser-based file management tool. Once you give it credentials to these other content-sharing sites, it becomes a hub of sorts that reduces the pain points to data transfer.
When I first heard about Oosah, I figured it would appeal to the same set of internet power users that goes ape over social network aggregators. But after checking it out, it became evident that Oosah also appeals to the MySpace faithful by making it easy to widgetize your digital media.
In addition to integrating with other services, the site is releasing a new gallery widget to compliment its slideshow widget. Each can be used to embed Oosah-hosted photos and videos onto webpages and social network profiles. These widgets actually strike me as the most useful parts of Oosah, since they equip ordinary people will easy ways to distribute their personal media.
Oosah is angel-funded and competes not only with the online storage services that provide sharing capabilities, but with the Slides and RockYous of the world as well. Also see Second Brain (reviewed here).
Everybody doing the same thing these days…
@113 Please explain how this is “the same thing”.
Its Web 2.0 Expo, not Web 2.0 Summit. The latter is in the fall.
@2 – or instead, would be delighted to otherwise hear, of, not the same thing?
as it’s pretty obvious that it’s the same thing!
I’m sure it removes a narrow pain-point for a specific user segment (which is always the best way to start a new product), but I’m only wondering whether the differentiation it offers over the competing products you mentioned ( Slide et al), is strong enough for it get a good set of users fast.
Kind of hard to determine what it really is: a widget? a drag and drop interface? a social network (again)?
@2 -> This is how -> http://www.mybloop.com
Only that mybloop has no limitations. The cool thing I see about Oosah is their integration with existing services, pretty cool.
However, I tried uploading 10 songs, and I got a bunch of errors along the way.
Those that didn’t show me any error popboxes don’t appear inside “My Music”
Has anyone had luck uploading music to it.
I like their look.
Google will probably buy it.
It’s a cool website, I checked it out. But I don’t think Google will buy it out, Its so early. Yeah but we can forget how Google buy out the then dying Blogger and transformed it to Blogger of today.
Thanks for the mention. I like the way they show content from the services in the folder structure – something we’re also looking into.
This is a nice development, but not as potentially powerful as SB, nor as aesthetically crisp. I tested just about all of these aggregator types over the last couple of years. This one had potential, but for my money Second Brain is the one to watch given their new upcoming release.
It is interesting however to watch the emulation by one app of another as in the slides – webslides aspect. I think that the best of these sites will be the one who gets the most user generated content and provides the most powerful interface. NO big secret huh?
Always,
Phil Butler
Congratulations to the Oosah team. We also launched few weeks ago http://www.ubuket.com, with similar functionality. But we packaged our concept as a virtual media player. We have preliminary versions for all major social networks and the iphone. I love to hear your feedback.
Best,
Bernardo
CEO, ubuket
I’m just not giving login creds to anyone for anything except maybe youtube or flickr (b/c I don’t use Y!mail). Kids lack consideration today, and if you want broad appeal you have to cater to other more conservative types.
There’s a bunch of sites in this space. Sticko (http://www.Sticko.com) is a good one that has the added ability to re-distribute your media to other places. It also has webcasting.
Widgets man….whod’a thunk?
Does it allow hotlinking of files, if so then it seems like it could have some serious potential. Imagine being able to upload a podcast on youtube then also without having to use any extra bandwidth have it hosted remotely – pulled in through a service like oosah, and able to offer it externally without having to rely on youtube – it makes it possible to allow others to publish and further distribute your work within their own medium without having to rely on them to pull the video from youtube, convert it to another format and use it etc.
Hi TV Spy,
Can you please rephrase your question?
What I think you’re asking, is if you can move content that you have on youtube and then rebroadcast it elsewhere?
If that’s the question, then the answer is yes. However, right now we are more focused on letting individual users manage their own media.
Essentially, if a user already has 50 videos on youtube, the user can drag-and-drop the files from youtube to any folder inside their Oosah account, and then can download, podcast, publish, or manage that media from within Oosah. The drag-and-drop operation seamlessly copies the actual file, not the link, to the user’s Oosah account.
On the other hand, the user doesn’t even have to move it to Oosah, the user can just rename, delete, tag, or watch videos that the user already has on his youtube account, without ever physically copying the file to Oosah.
The user can always take content from youtube and incorporate it into his slideshow, gallery, or playlist widgets, and in that scenario the file would be streamed from youtube in real-time to the final end-user.