Wuala, es un servicio de almacenamiento online.

Características:

• Segura para almacenar y realizar copias de seguridad de tus archivos en línea y acceder a ellos desde cualquier lugar. Todos los archivos cifrados.
• Compartir archivos con algunos amigos.
• Tú eliges quién tiene acceso a qué carpeta. Administrar sus archivos, junto con su asociación o su grupo de trabajo.
• Navegar a través de millones de imágenes, vídeos y documentos y descubrir cosas.

Para más información y comenzar a utilizar este almacenamiento online y gratuito, visita Wuala.

Ahora que tengo un proyecto en el que trabajo en mi computadora de escritorio, en la laptop y a veces en la compu de la oficina :p jiuu mantener sincronizadas las carpetas se ha vuelto una pesadilla, es cierto que tenemos grandes herramientas en ubuntu para sincronizar carpetas -como unison o rsync- pero es cansado tener que hacer el proceso manualmente. Bueno, pues finalmente me decidí a buscar una solución que realice esto de forma automatica y encontré muy buenas alternativas:

Dropbox
SpiderOak
Wuala

finalmente me decidí por Dropbox, así que intentaré explicar como instalar esta maravilla.

Para instalarlo desde un repositorio -y así tener acceso a las actualizaciones- hay que crear el archivo /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list

y copiar el siguiente contenido en él

deb http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu jaunty main

Una vez hecho esto hacemos un update y procedemos a instalarlo mediante

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install nautilus-dropbox

Cuando finalice, es necesario volver a iniciar nuestra sesión para que se actualice el nautilus. Después damos clic en el acceso directo que nos creó en el meú para que descargue el demonio -que es la aplicación que se encargará de sincronizar nuestros archivos-

una vez que termine nos mostrará el asistente de instalación

Al terminar el asistente nos muestra la carpeta Dropbox donde pondremos los archivos a sincronizar, o también podemos dar clic derecho sobre cualquier carpeta que deseemos mantener sincronizada.

Repetimos el proceso en las máquinas donde queramos tener sincronizadas las carpetas y listo, ya podremos agregar, modificar o eliminar archivos en cualquier máquina y se mantendrán sincronizados automaticamente.
A poco no es más sencillo?

Heute habe ich es geschafft, endlich mal ein Backup- und Sharing-Tool auszuprobieren, welches mir Blogger Arne mir bereits vor Wochen empfohlen hat: Die Dropbox.

Mein Eindruck: Überaus praktische Web 2.0-Anwendung, gerade wenn man mehrere Rechner nutzt und auf Daten zugreifen möchte. Durch den 2 GB großen Speicherplatz ist auch ein Backup der wichtigsten Daten möglich.

Vorteil Dropbox gegenüber vielen anderen Anwendungen dieser Art (z.B. Wua.la) ist, dass die Dropbox permanent die hochgeladenen Dateien synchronisiert. Auch versehentlich gelöschte Dateien lassen sich wiederherstellen. Ich habe bislang keinerlei nennenswerten Geschwindigkeitseinbußen an meinem Rechner durch die Sync bemerkt. Filesharing ist per Dateifreigabe an Freunde problemlos möglich.

Fazit: Guter Service, übersichtliches Tool, kostenlos und mit vorerst ausreichend Speicherplatz.

People around the internet are debating about Web 3.0, about Mobile Search, about disruptive video publishing and editing technologies, etc. Most of the discussions aim at identifying the next big thing aka the next Google OR the next Facebook. The secret is very simple, you don’t have to look for one OR the other, just combine the best of both and you’ll find the holy grail: wuala.

Facebook plus Google equals Wuala

Wuala è un sistema di archiviazione sociale.

Wuala era in beta privata, ma da oggi chiunque può crearsi account.

A differenza di altri servizi di archiviazione / condivisione di file, Wuala non dispone di spazio web. Piuttosto, i file sono criptati e quindi memorizzati sul computer di altri utenti Wuala. Anche se questo potrebbe creare un po ‘paura, il risultato è che è possibile memorizzare grandi quantità di dati. Il più spazio per allocare Wuala sul disco rigido, più spazio on-line è possibile accedere. E i tuoi file sono duplicati su più computer in modo che non avrete problemi ad accedere al proprio file, anche se alcune delle persone nella rete hanno spento le macchine per la notte.

Wuala è un desktop client per Windows, Mac e Linux che è possibile utilizzare per caricare e scaricare file. Oppure è possibile accedere ad una interfaccia web. Il servizio è ancora in fase beta, così nessuno promette che tutti gli errori sono stati corretti. Ma, come di oggi, Wuala è in versione beta pubblica, non privata.

Sito Ufficiale : Wua.la

Via|Downloadsquad

I have stumbled on a very nice product which I want to share in this post. It is a online storage system named Wuala. It is a desktop client via which you can upload files to be stored online.

Initially you get 1GB of online space for free. As users we always want more space, so either you can buy more space online or interestingly you can trade some of your local disc space for online space. It has a very user friendly and sleek interface. Security is a key feature of this online storage system. All of the files which are uploaded are automatically encrypted before the actual upload which makes your content very secure. A sample screen shot of my wuala client:

Now with such a online storage system all your important files and pictures can be stored reliably, no more crying for lost data when your system crashes.

Technically it is a fascinating product as it is distributed file storage system which is based on peer to peer systems. If anyone is interested to know more about the technology behind the product I recommend watching this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xKZ4KGkQY8

Not only file storage, it has a social side to it as well where you can have friends added and share folders with them.

So now without any further do go and explore for yourself. Happy online storing and sharing !!

Wuala é um excelente serviço de compartilhamento online e de desktop que disponibiliza para seus usuários 1 GB de espaço para armazenamento de arquivos, sejam eles imagens, vídeos, documentos, etc. O site funciona de maneira simples, basta que você acesse-o e carregue o compartilhador. A partir de lá, é possível enviar arquivos de qualquer tamanho, que ficam armazenados e disponíveis por tempo ilimitado.

Este compartilhador suporta links diretos, ou seja, você pode baixar clicando apenas em um link, qualquer arquivo armazenado no site. O Wuala funciona ainda como uma rede social, onde você pode adicionar amigos e encontrar pessoas e seus arquivos armazenados neste serviço, bem como associar-se a grupos.

Compartilhador na web e no desktop

Este é um compartilhador repleto de vantagens e uma delas, com certeza, é a possibilidade de enviar os arquivos diretamente pelo site ou então a partir do atalho criado pelo Wuala em seu desktop. Ou seja, você não precisará acessar a página deste serviço toda vez que quiser carregar algum arquivo em sua conta.

Como funciona

Ao carregar o compartilhador, uma nova janela surgirá em sua tela. É a partir dela que você carregará seus arquivos e gerenciará os já carregados. É possível ainda organizar os arquivos, dividindo-os em pastas que podem ser excluídas e renomeadas, exatamente como no gerenciador de arquivos padrão do Windows, o Windows Explorer.

Para carregar arquivos, vá até a guia “My Files”, abra uma pasta, clique primeiro com o botão direito, depois em “Add Files” para selecionar os arquivos desejados. Ainda é possível enviá-los arrastando e soltando na janela do programa. Para encontrar o link direto para um arquivo armazenado no Wuala, clique com o botão direito sobre ele e depois em “Copy Link” e então cole o texto em algum lugar. Divulgando este endereço, qualquer pessoa pode fazer o download deste arquivo.

Amigos e grupos

Como dito anteriormente, o Wuala funciona também como uma rede social, onde você pode adicionar amigos e fazer parte de grupos. E isto pode ser feito através das guias “My Friends” e “My Groups”. O interessante em fazer parte de algum grupo é que você tem reunido ali diversos outros usuários que compartilham arquivos que você necessita e vice-versa, facilitando ainda mais a utilização deste ótimo serviço.

Espaço para armazenamento

Gratuitamente, qualquer usuário tem acesso a 1 GB de espaço no Wuala. Para aumentar este tamanho, você tem duas opções: comprar mais espaço ou utilizar o seu próprio disco rígido. A segunda opção, além de uma inovação, aparenta ser economicamente mais viável. Ela funciona assim, se você preenche alguns pré-requisitos o seu HD poderá permanecer conectado ao serviço, o que permitirá a você acessar seus arquivos armazenados ali de qualquer lugar, como se estivessem na internet.

Demais características

Acessando as configurações do programa, você pode deixá-lo de uma maneira mais apropriada a seu uso, definindo os valores máximos de transferência (download e upload), alterando as opções de sua conta e etc. É possível ainda deixá-lo em português, o que o torna ainda mais funcional para usuários brasileiros.
Download: Wuala

Distributed computing is not a new concept – one of the most famous examples is the SETI project which uses spare computing cycles on regular computers to search for intelligent life in space. Peer-to-peer filesharing has also gotten a bad rap especially from the carrier community, which allows users to exchange files using their full bandwidth pipes without relying on centralized servers. And online backup services like Xdrive (now defunct), Pownce, and box.net are well known to users looking to back up their content online, which provides them with access to their content from any location which is important from a disaster recovery perspective. Now, Swiss startup Wuala (rhymes with Voila, www.wua.la) is now looking to bring the advantages of peer-to-peer filesharing (namely lower overhead costs for the provider) to the online storage game.

How does the service work? Starting from a regular web browser, users can choose files or folders that they’d like to backup to the cloud. Once the files are synchronized, users can then share these files with others (friends lists can be pulled from Skype and/or Facebook), but by default, files that you upload are only accessible to you. Is there a concern that files stored out on someone else’s machine may be viewable by others? There’s always a concern in a distributed environment, but Wuala claims that the files pieces are safe. The data itself is always encrypted using 2048 bit RSA for the key exchange and 128 bit AES for the data encryption, which isn’t bad (regular secure transmissions to banking sites currently use 1024 bit RSA).

The service provides a default of 1GB of online storage, but additional storage can be purchased or can be “traded” – by reserving a chunk of local hard drive space that you make available for other to use, your “online storage” capacity also rises accordingly. This model is well thought out in my view, because it provides a benefit for opening access to your own bandwidth and hard drive space to others. The challenge comes as carriers start to implement bandwidth caps, as opening up 50GB for others to use could result in overage charges in no time.

The big question is what’s the business model for the company. While Wuala thinks that there could be some money in terms of purchased extra storage or advertising, it’s not quite clear at present how this gets monetized. But it is an interesting idea that one of the major Internet companies could be interested in if it takes off.

The implications of the technology are the fascinating parts of this story.

1. With peer to peer filesharing under attack in areas like the U.K., this type of service not only encrypts transfers, but the private network aspect of it as well makes it much harder for industry spies to set up traps for users to get IP addresses or to put bad content out there. Private peer to peer networks (with contacts added through Facebook in particular) could be the next generation of BitTorrent.
2. The legality of this becomes much trickier as well. A user could upload many gigabytes of data up on this service, essentially backing up their entire media collection. If that user then wanted to share the content with friends, the user could just give them their password. In this case, if the friends then sync the content back to their own computers, is there any way for authorities to detect the pirating of content? This becomes very much akin to “tape trading” in the early days of content piracy.
3. The commercial implications of this could be very practical as well, as an enterprise version of this type of software could be used to allow a corporation to spread its backups across multiple sites and even to a group of companies that aren’t competing with each other. This is analogous to giving a spare key to a neighbour automatically, and could be a way of fulfilling disaster recovery planning requirements.

This new service is especially noteworthy as it demonstrates that P2P technologies may have very valid applications outside of content distribution (BitTorrent) and voice calling (Skype). This presents the carrier community with a quandary of sorts – with an increasing number of encrypted data streams travelling on their data networks, can these carriers effectively police content, as they’re trying to do in the U.K.? While carriers will in the near-term be able to impose bandwidth caps + overages on their customers, longer-term, consumers will increasingly be drawn to Internet service providers than can provide them with better value with unlimited bandwidth caps or at least as Google suggests, unlimited volume but guaranteed minimum bandwidth rates – an improved total cost of ownership so to speak.

In summary, the launch of Wuala demonstrates that businesses looking to leverage peer-to-peer filesharing are emerging, and distributed storage could be an important element as cloud computing becomes an important theme in the medium to long-term. And for the carriers, more legal applications from over-the-top service providers is a negative as Wuala could significantly boost data consumption from end users without providing any additional revenue to the carriers – a trend that seems unlikely to reverse itself any time soon.

Ein interessantes Konzept für Online-Speicher. Das Wuala-Netzwerk besteht aus zumeist privaten Client-PC’s, die privaten freien Festplattenplatz für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht haben. Lokaler Speicher verwandelt sich in global erreichbaren Online-Speicher.

Alle Dateien, die man online abspeichern möchte, werden zuerst lokal auf dem PC verschlüsselt, in Fragmente aufgeteilt, die dann redundant auf den Wuala-Servern und im Wuala-Netzwerk gespeichert werden. Dabei lassen sich für jede Datei und Ordner festlegen, ob diese öffentlich oder privat online abgelegt werden. Es gibt keine Beschränkung bei der Dateigröße oder dem Dateityp, sei es ein 100KB Worddokument, ein 2MB JPG-Foto oder ein 3GB-Video. Der Zugriff auf die abgelegten Daten ist extrem schnell, da parallel von mehreren Quellen heruntergeladen wird. Einmal hochgeladen, kann auf die Daten jederzeit von überall her zugegriffen werden.

Der Dienst kann direkt online ausprobiert werden. Zugriff auf die öffentlichen Dateien des Netzwerks (Welt) ist ohne Anmeldung und Installation einer Software möglich. Lediglich eine Java-Plattform sollte auf dem Rechner installiert sein.

Wuala – ein weiterer Schritt in Richtung total vernetzte Zukunft. Für alle, die keine Lust mehr auf Backups auf DVD, externer Festplatte und Speicherstick haben.

http://Wua.la launches social grid storage in public beta tomorrow; http://is.gd/1r3V

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–Glenn

On a dual-core 64 bit 3 gig AMD processor (A8V-E deluxe motherboard) while running it uses about 3-4% CPU time.  No significant RAM footprint.  I have ‘lost’ internet connection during startup because it wants to connect.  What does? the virtual drive and the virtual microsoft board, of course.  I’ve taken it off startup (I’m on 7/1 DSL, so it’s fast) and since the Wuala program isn’t hogging everything trying to connect to the internet and Windows at the same time…the boot time has merely been reduced by about 90 seconds.  The response practically reminds me of dialup.  I’m getting close to the end of my testing on it. 

I would use it to connect to others like me… [oregonnerd--gmail]  I do have invitations.

–Glenn

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(it’s just I wouldn’t wish this on anyone)

More on this:  it looks like a drive to Windows (or whatever, as in Power Desk) and can be shared.  How different this is from other applications I don’t see as yet–other than the ease of file transfers.  I have 15 invitations, apparently.  I’m oregonnerd and I’m a gmail user.  I wouldn’t use it as yet for online backup, but it might be the new…WordPress?

–Glenn

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I’ll check out the suggested tag for online storage and do some research.  I was simply interested to see the Asus appear on the market again, with a true reminiscence of the old IBM 8100/dumb terminal operating model.

For the average reader, I’d say don’t try this for now.  I do actually have a Norton Ghost type backup in the wings if it truly gets serious.  It is still in alpha stage, so I’m not providing links.

www.mail.com is one of the lesser-known online mailbox offerings, that’s been around since the days of Compuserve.  The download seems quite harmless, and the load of spam that used to come with my old address (no longer available because of suffix) doesn’t now, which probably means better AI type screening.

–Glenn