Barriers to Exit: Don’t Take Storage from a Stranger

Monday, March 27th, 2006

During a routine google search for box.net mentions and links, I ran into a troubling post on an “elance” type website. I’ll let the title speak for itself: Project:...

Netvibes: Storage at Your Fingertips

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

About 3 months ago I got in contact with Tariq and Florent of Netvibes. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Netvibes, they are a personalized startpage that allows you to...

Marketing or Technology?

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

It is very interesting to stop and think about which websites on the internet have excellent technology and which have perfect marketing. In many cases, a single company will not have...

Us vs. Us vs. Them

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

It came to our attention today that Streamload has taken on “blog advertising.” For the most part their ads are now syndicated across the same networks we’re dealing...

Public Sharing… What Do You Want to See?

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

As I mentioned in an earlier post, we’re revamping our public sharing quite a bit. We are going to allow free users to share files publicly with anyone who has a Box.net account...

Are We Competing with Amazon?

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

As of a few minutes ago, Amazon web services launched an online storage platform for developers (thanks for the tip, Nik). Interestingly, we had been contacted by Amazon in early December...

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