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thomas n. burg - on social media and its benefits for us, and sometimes gossip.

Links for September 30th through October 2nd

I found these:


online storage and bandwidth

I’m doing a lot of research on the [tag-ice]online storage[/tag-ice] market recently. There is a lot going on here. Still no real reliable provider yet - I mean really reliable. What struck was this statement by one of the very successful consumer storage-providers. Box.net’s Aaron states.

If these were our costs for an average free account, we, or anyone who offered it, would be in business for no more than two months.

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Swisscom and online storage

Interesting! I’m researching the [tag-ice]online storage[/tag-ice] competition recently. Definitely a place that’s heating up. Swisscom seems to strive for a role as a significant player in this market. They just invested 2,3 million Euros in Diino, a Swedish online storage firm. Some time before they partnered with FAST LTA to host the promising Swiss online [tag-tec]storage[/tag-tec] service Fotobank.de.

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Storage as a (European) service.

You are all familiar with the notion “Data is the Next Intel Inside” - one of the shibboleths of Web 2.0. It is about who owns the data that is who is going to make money by providing the data for use through third applications - those third apps are called mashups.
Well data (i.e.

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