Ash Maurya

Member since: Jul 29th, 2006

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CloudFire: P2P sharing for the regular folk (Download Squad)

Feb 29th 2008 7:59AM How many people really know how to use ftp or the difference between ftp and sftp? We are not about reinventing old stuff but simplifying ways of getting things done. In this case sharing media - nothing more, nothing less.

We believe media sharing is more about consuming media than downloading or exchanging files and we do this by making user desktops act more like a web server than an ftp server.

BoxCloud: dead simple file sharing (TUAW.com)

Jan 30th 2007 11:45AM Ash (from BoxCloud here)...

Just clarifying a couple of points made:

1. BoxCloud is not a P2P or web based application but a p2web application which is both. As a result, we do tunnel all traffic through our network to be able to connect the browser with the target machine where the files reside. We are going to support direct P2P connections if both sides have the client which will not be counted as bandwidth usage.

2. BoxCloud was really designed to simplify iterative collaboration in environments (like graphic design) where there is a lot of content churn (rapid creation/feedback/revision cycles) - without having to upload multiple revisions of the same files, or forcing others to download a p2p client. You just work on your desktop like you always did.

3. The "online" limitation is something we are working to eliminate over time through a combination of server caching (already available) and swarming across other nodes that have the file.

BoxCloud: "Dead Simple File Sharing" (Download Squad)

Jul 29th 2006 11:25AM Thanks for trying out BoxCloud.

All the solutions on the market have different strenghts - We want to place as much empasis on the sharing experience as we do on the sending. We also feel very strongly that forcing people to download yet another app just to view files is wrong which is why we take a peer to web approach. We feel the same about forcing logins but it was required to ensure user security. Although, we have found a good balance between security and convinience and are going to be releasing a no-login option next week.