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There’s No Free Lunch - Even at GoogleAugust 25th, 2008 at 7:39 amSource:Mashable! Oosah’s free virtual storage service is releasing its new iPhone application today, turning your iPhone and iPod Touch into a mobile desktop of sorts. The benefit of having access to your documents and files is that an application such as Oosah effectively extends the storage capacity of your mobile device. Oosah already had limited mobile support, allowing you to upload media from your mobile phone directly to your Oosah account while on the go. In this day and age, however, mobile accessibility to your own content is equally important and we’ve seen a number of applications moving us in that direction. Oosah in particular takes advantage of the iPhone’s drag and drop capabilities for file management, and focuses on the two-way sharing capacity that its storage options allow. Box.net, a similar virtual storage service, released its iPhone application shortly after the emergence of the iPhone, and the recently launched DataCase is finding new ways in which to share files between your computer and your iPhone or iPod Touch. Moblyng is going after the socially active media user for its mobile appeal, even though this moves beyond the iPhone and iPod touch demographic. The ultimate difference for the adoption of these services will be the end users’ needs and the management capabilities of files while on the go, and increasingly manageable between social media sharing networks as well. Oosah’s promotion of its new iPhone app is actually focusing on the accessibility of files that you’re likely to use on your mobile device anyway, such as your music library, meaning that you’ll be able to access and play far more songs than what the highest memory capacity of your iPod can carry. So in Oosah’s case, the management of your files via your mobile device is a highly important task, and this appeal to the media functions that are already in use by iPhone and iPod Touch users is what Oosah is banking on in order to stand out from the growing number of applications making your mobile device that much more like a mini computer. Now if we can only get Jobs to include copy and paste on these things… —Related Articles at Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog:Oosah’s Almost Social “Virtual Desktop”World’s Simplest iPhone AppiPhone to Launch in Germany on T-Mobile3G iPhone Confirmed for 2008Mundu Optimizes Multi-Client Chat Tool for the iPhoneApple Making a Directory for iPhone Apps?European iPhone to be Offered on Multiple Carriers
Valleywag brings us a well researched insight into the dramatic situation in Google’s cafeterias. A culinary tragedy is brewing over there, friends, and I can almost hear the collective cry of Googlers as their selection of dishes shrinks. The rest of the world, of course, silently rejoices the fact that these flamboyant showoffs might soon be forced to eat the same plebeian meal as most people: burger and coke. You can read the gory details over at Valleywag, but the short version is this: no more free afternoon snacks, dinner or tea for Googlers. They’ll still get free breakfast and lunch, though, which is better than what most people are getting, so they shouldn’t complain. Plus, I’m sure that Google will restore all the culinary privileges very soon when bad publicity tarnishes their image of the coolest company in the world. —Related Articles at Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog:Google Docs Won’t Save Anything; I’m Going to LunchPagety, Reply.com, FluidPlay, Lunch Prodigy, Baynote, ZoodangoThe CommunityNext::Monetize Event is Coming Up!What Google Should Learn From StartupsGoogle Releases Custom Search Business EditionGoogle I/O Ticket Giveaway: Answer This Question and Get Conference TixGoogle Now Lets You Place Ads On TV
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