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All this talk about online storage, but where's Yahoo??
With yesterday's announcement from AOL about 5GBs of online storage, the to-be released Windows Live Drive and rumored Google GDrive, all the major players are making strides into providing large amounts of persistent and easily accessible storage to their users.Except Yahoo! - they've had a storage service forever - Y! Briefcase, but it is dwarfed by these recent developments - 30MB free, upgradable to just 100MB for $35, and a very Web 1.0 interface - no AJAX in sight.
It's not like they are not running large disk services for the backends of several properties - Y! Photos and Flickr offer unlimited storage for image files, so it's not a stretch to imagine them having the capacity to compete if they want to.
So Yahoo!... where's your offering? Is this a game of catch-up like when GMail opened the floodgates on 1GB+ mailboxes, or a case of Yahoo! forgetting an older service and letting it wither away??
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Jay said 1:24PM on 8-07-2006
Not to mention that you cannot upload any file that is larger than 5 MB, a ridiculously small size given today's files.
Yahoo's greatest strength is the many features on one account (as I like to think of it, the AOL-killer). However, Yahoo needs to stay ahead of the competition, lest it lose that advantage.
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