You know a year ago, on StreetFire.net we launched a "hard drive for life" with 1GB webmail, calendars, user groups, 2GB file storage, sharing (share with user, group, domain or web).
Guess what? We only had 100 people sign up and half of them didn't use the system.
So we:
Disabled webmail
Disabled contacts
Disabled calendars
Disabled All uploaded file types with the exception of video formats
Disabled all share levels and made everything shared with Web.
Guess what? now it's a run away success, with 50% traffic growth and we're up to 44,000 unique visitors in 3 weeks and will have half a million videos served in our first month.
So the moral of the story is, it isn't the service it's how it's marketed.
"... That would force the users to use non-free software which is a bad thing. I don't have any flash and never will have...."
So when you download a browser you open it up and Deactive Flash? The Flash plug-in is shipped for Free on 99% of the browsers out there. Also Flash is the most common plug-in this side of a.GIF renderer.
FWIW it is very common for larger companies to buy up Dark Fiber from large telco providers. All of the Tier 1 Telcos sell Dark Fiber as a standard product line, and you will find many of the Fortune 100 companies out there own their own. I highly doubt this is Google's atempt to change business plans and enter the depressed Telco sector.
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You know a year ago, on StreetFire.net we launched a "hard drive for life" with 1GB webmail, calendars, user groups, 2GB file storage, sharing (share with user, group, domain or web).
Guess what? We only had 100 people sign up and half of them didn't use the system.
So we:Then we renamed the service http://videos.streetfire.net/
Guess what? now it's a run away success, with 50% traffic growth and we're up to 44,000 unique visitors in 3 weeks and will have half a million videos served in our first month.
So the moral of the story is, it isn't the service it's how it's marketed.
-Adam
"... That would force the users to use non-free software which is a bad thing. I don't have any flash and never will have...."
So when you download a browser you open it up and Deactive Flash? The Flash plug-in is shipped for Free on 99% of the browsers out there. Also Flash is the most common plug-in this side of aFWIW it is very common for larger companies to buy up Dark Fiber from large telco providers. All of the Tier 1 Telcos sell Dark Fiber as a standard product line, and you will find many of the Fortune 100 companies out there own their own. I highly doubt this is Google's atempt to change business plans and enter the depressed Telco sector.