The Windows Explorer of the Web

Even though we're moving all our life to the web, little has been done to make finding our data easy. It's easy to find my videos at YouTube, easy to find my photos at Flickr and Facebook, easy to find my documents at Zoho. However, it's difficult to find all my files in one place, difficult to search across multiple services at once, and difficult to organize my files by theme, rather than just by file type. Solving this problem is the vision for an Online File System.

I wanted to expand on this a little bit and explain Openomy as the Windows Explorer of the web. As many of you know, Windows Explorer (or Finder for us OS X folks) is the application Windows provides to us to view all our files in a single place. We can see all the photos, documents, spreadsheets, applications, and anything else that sits on our hard drive in one place. We can search for different things. We can organize those files. And, we can transfer files directly to our hard drive via Windows Explorer.

Openomy is much the same. You'll be able to see all of your files stored at various web sites. You'll be able to search for files across these different sites. You can organize the files using tags, allowing you to find a single file by different themes. You can upload files directly to Openomy via our interface.

Unlike Windows Explorer, however, we go further by allowing you to share your files with friends, family, and the world. You can share any file with a friend as long as they, too, have an Openomy account. Or, you can allow the entire world to see your file publicly, which also allows you to embed your file into other sites and services.

We're excited to organize your web based world and become the Windows Explorer of the web.