Openomy In The Press

Since we've started, we've never done any real PR work attempting to get press mentions. Luckily, we've been fortunate enough to be featured in some of the best news sources, including blogs, online news sites, magazines, and being able to participate in conferences.

I thought I'd take a second to appreciate all the nice words we've received, and point out some nice press we've recently received.

Web Worker Daily
On March 5, Mike Gunderloy of Web Worker Daily said in a post entitled Openomy: Going Beyond Free Storage:

...Openomy has a different strategy: they’ll give you a gigabyte of storage and a way for you to build your own features.

Specifically, Openomy has implemented a REST-based API with (at the moment) Ruby language bindings. Anyone can write an application that gets authenticated access to files stored on Openomy, then perform operations like uploading, downloading, and tagging. If you’re a developer looking to add online storage to your own applications, this gives you a potential way to do that without running your own disk farm.

PC World
And, on March 23, PC World included us in their list of 101 Fantastic Freebies, as one of their top File Sharing and Storage sites. The list should be in the May, 2008 issue of the print version of PC World. We're very humbled and thankful for this distinction and thank everyone involved.

Thanks for all the kind words, folks! We hope we can exceed the high expectations set by these articles.

Openomy: Now with unlimited storage and even more control over your data (via your own S3 account)!

Today is another big day here at Openomy: You can now use your own Amazon S3 account within Openomy! This is important for many reasons: you now have unlimited storage (just pay Amazon for what you use), full control over where your files are stored, and the ability to manage your S3 account through the Openomy interface.

How It Works

An example: Every day, I back up some files to S3 using the S3Fox Firefox extension. I use my Openomy account for storing files, too.

All I have to do is set up my S3 account with Openomy and now I'll be able to upload and download even more files through Openomy -- the 1gb storage limit is removed when I use my own S3 account. Every file I upload will be stored in my own S3 account. My older Openomy files won't change and will be available just as they were before.

Syncing
Moreover, anything that I upload to my S3 account outside of Openomy can be imported into my Openomy account with a single click. For example, if I add a file through S3Fox, I can Sync my account, making it available via Openomy.

Likewise, if I delete a file from S3Fox, I can Sync and it will no longer be shown within Openomy.

Setup

To setup, just click the Your Account link at the top right of every page, and fill in your AWS credentials, including the bucket you'd like to use. That's it! All new files will be uploaded to that bucket.

If you'd like to Sync, just click the Sync button. Any differences between what Openomy knows about and S3 contains will be resolved. You may Sync your account at any time, but beware that Syncing may take a few minutes.

Caution!

This is a Beta feature, and we are making it publicly available for testing. We are using this feature internally already, and are confident in the quality. That said, you should be aware of a few things:

• Once you begin using S3, you can not stop. We plan on adding this ability shortly, but for now, there's no turning back.


• If you delete a file from Openomy that is stored in your S3 account, it is also deleted from S3. Make sure this is what you actually want!

Feedback

As always, we love to hear feedback about our features, so please do send me email. Comments, suggestions, bug reports, and flames are all welcome!