I don't use my Omnidrve account very much, mainly because I use Google Documents for most of the things I need to store. I think there should also be a user plan set at about $20, which I think would attract more paying users. Even better, I think accounts should be seperated by Personal accounts (0, and $20 options) and then Corporate with a $40 option with multiple users, and so on.

I only just started using it as a result of being introduced to it here on Tangler...

I'm using it to transfer work files back and forth between colleagues (work group located in 4 cities separated by about 200 miles north south and 100 miles east west)...

Oh and using the public file function (you can publish a url to an individual file) to share illustrations here on Tangler discussion groups... including screen snapshots to the gang at Tangler in their feedback group.... very handy...  

With the combination of Tangler for private group collaboration and a file exchange mechanism built around Omnidrive I think we can greatly increase the effectiveness and efficiency of our own development efforts. 

I'm beginning to think that Omnidrive is losing to Box.net, although I have heard much recently about Box. Box.net seems to be similar to a Flickr of Storage solutions (at least the way I see it). With little restriction, clean, fast pages, and social networking capablities. Omnidrive just doesn't seem as robust and clean.

I'm wondering why there isn't as much hype in this field as there was with Flickr and the photo sharing sites (is it because there's more competition, or perhaps because we're in the middle of the Web 2.0 era and Flickr was towards the beginning, leading the way).

These are just my opinions of the two sites, I believe Omnidrive may have more applications for business users as it seems to be an all inclusive sort of application, whereas Box.net seems to work better as an open system with more ties to the web. 

Also, why is everyone using Zoho instead of Google's apps (I sure do hope that Google comes out with a drive program soon, and one that's as clean as Flickr or Box.net, Zoho has horrible load times and a weird Office style interface).

It sounds pretty groovy. I'm flickr nut, so might be actually useful.

I'll test today. 

bjtitus: At Omnidrive, we are building a stable, scalable and easy to use storage platform - not a social network for files, two different use cases and different sets of users. As an aside, we actually integrate very well with other apps, we have integragted with over a dozen so far and there are another 50 or so in development - if there is anything that we do well it is being a platform for other apps to integrate with

I am impressed with your API, it's just that no one has built much off of it. Don't know why, I guess it's simply that your not as popular yet and it's not as necessary to build external apps on top of your platform as it is on flickr.

I do understand your user difference (your going for the more corporate groups or small businesses). But I'm wondering about your prices, since it's built on top of S3 would it not be simpler for a company to higher someone to integrate that service into their network or for another site to come along and dramatically reduce the costs? 

I'm going to start using Omnidrive instead of usb drives to transport things to and from home (linux/windows) and school (windows) and between Windows and Linux partitions. Omnidrive as swing space.

What is this "linux windows" you speak of?

Didn't you know? Linux needs windows to run!!

Or maybe it was a typo...

bjtitus: there isn't much on our API yet (around 10-12 integrations live, another 5-6 announced) because it has only been live for weeks. See our announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo tonight to see what we are working on. There are around 30-35 apps currently being built to work with Omnidrive or work with it, and we hear of another 1-2 every day

Im not sure what you are saying about S3, are you saying Omnidrive is built on S3 and that would make it cheaper? We actually aren't and our user accounts are around 20-30% cheaper than S3. We can afford to do that and still be a solid business because we developed our own cheap and efficient storage clustering solution