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Oosah offers 1TB of free online media storage
There are some limitations. You can only upload videos that are 200MB or smaller, images that are 50MB or less, and MP3 files that are 9MB or less. And you can't upload executable files, office documents, or other files. Just movies, music, and pictures. But Oosah does accept most common media file types. There's also an option to upload media directly from your camera or capture device without copying it to your computer first.
Besides offering an incredible amount of storage space, there are a few other things that set Oosah apart. One of the coolest features is integration with YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and Picasa. You can associate Oosah with your other social network/media accounts and manage your media libraries from a central location. Oosah has an incredibly simple file manager that lets you easily drag and drop files from Flickr to Oosah, from Oosah to Facebook, and so on.
Does the service really provide a whole 1TB of storage to every user? Honestly, I can't say. It would take me forever to upload that much data. But if the promise of a huge amount of free storage is a publicity stunt to get people to try to use the service, it worked. And I have to say, I'm impressed.
Right now all Oosah accounts are free. The company says it may eventually create a premium service that offers paying customers even more storage.
One word of warning. When I signed up I had to check a box that said I agreed to Oosah's privacy policy. But there was no clear link to said policy. A quick Google search turned up a list of terms and conditions which also makes mention of a separate privacy policy. But it's nowhere to be found.
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Subscribe to commentsraphaelSep 20th 2008 7:51AM
If you want to speed your upload time, take a look at http://www.uploadforme.com , which will launch shortly!
Nathan ReinSep 20th 2008 10:05AM
I really like the idea behind Oosah, but the killer feature for me is the integration with other popular sites. I love the fact that i can grab a dozen of my Flickr photos and instantly move them to Facebook, or whatever. For me personally, I don't so much need a new online storage site. What I mainly use these days is Flickr, and I'm happy with that. But I sure can use a better way of making getting those sites to interact better with one another. Oosah does that. I could easily imagine that after using Oosah's toolset for a while, I might start posting videos or music or additional photos to the site itself.
That being said, however, I've found the service to be very unreliable. I found three main problems. First, once you hook up your Flickr account, Oosah appears to "see" only photos in sets. Photos that haven't been added to photosets simply don't show up. Second, their connections to Flickr and Facebook in particular seem to be very unstable. When I request that Oosah show me my Flickr photos, I get a long delay with a little "loading" graphic, sometimes for minutes. Sometimes the photos will appear, sometimes they won't. When I try to move photos between services, which is one of their highly-touted features, I again have to wait a long time for a response, and then I get a success message for about one out of three attempts, and other times i get an incomprehensible XML error code. And on top of that, sometimes when I get a "success" message, I find that the transfer didn't actually take place. The third problem, which is annoying, is that the interface is frustrating and confusing. For example, as I'm typing this, I have an Oosah tab open. At this moment, I'm looking at the main Oosah "media" tab. I tell it to connect to my Flickr account. I get a message saying I'm already connected. Fine. I click the "Flickr" item in the "My Media" list. Nothing happens. I click it again. Nothing happens. I click again -- I get a little progress bar that says "Connecting...". Then it disappears. Nothing happens. I click again. Nothing. Et cetera. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, if anything. Same when I try to connect to Facebook. (For the record, my experience has been that connections to YouTube and Picasa work fine.)
I used the Contact Us link on the site to tell the owners about these issues, but no one ever responded.
So, as I say, I like Oosah's functionality, but until they get their technology to the point where it's actually usable and dependable, I wouldn't trust them with any important files.
TwiceOct 3rd 2008 12:49PM
Terms of use...
http://www.oosah.com/terms.php