Comments on: How Would You Like 1TB of Free Storage Space?

By: stefan

stefan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:29:03 +0000

its not working. it wont load past gathering information.
cant even sign up.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:13:28 +0000

Totally dead now – the site doesn’t even load any more.

Thanks Oosah, for letting me know you failed so I could get all my off your site (losers).

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:45:03 +0000

Oosah is dead. I’ve asked their admins 3 times what’s going on with not being able to upload with no response.

They were victims of the rule that something that seems too good to be true probably is.

Thanks for trying Oosah. Now, please just let your users know what the hell is going on.

By: Marty Cohn

Marty Cohn — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:23:46 +0000

Oosah was really neat when users could upload content to it. It’s been locked, forbidding uploads for at least a month with no mention of this condition in the Oosah blog. Previously they’d tell folks when the service would be temporarily down for uploads and give an ETA when it would be back.

They’re still saying you can have 1 TB of data, but their actions tell a different story. It may be a good time to back up what’s there.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:52:06 +0000

It looks like there was a way to make a podcast out of media files on here, but it looked pretty locked down. That’s what I would use this space for. Is there a way to link to files you’ve posted?

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Oosah: Oosah T&C's & Privacy Policy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:05:45 +0000

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By: R. Moose

R. Moose — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:11:33 +0000

It isn’t even ready for BETA from my first look.

Lots of problems with the Settings form.
Media uploads not showing up.
No Secure Connect auth for Google Apps.

Just lots and lots of little problems that makes it unusable.

Almost all of this stuff should have been caught at alpha, but lately the “Web 2.0″ thing to do is upload directly to Beta and launch.

It looks like it can be a great service once they get going…if they get going.

By: Lisa Solomon

Lisa Solomon — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:31:12 +0000

I had the same problem as Ganesha23: I uploaded some files, but they don’t display on the My Media page, even though the fact that they were uploaded is reflected on the Account Utilization screen.

There are no help forums and when I tried to submit through the Contact Us page, I got an error message.

I was hoping to use Oohsa as a substitute (in part) for Odeo. Since Odeo “upgraded” to hosting video as well as audio, they only offer one (quite large) player that can be embedded on a website. I’d welcome any suggestions of any services like the old Odeo, which allow you to upload and store audio files for free, and give you a choice of players that you can embed in your site.

By: Jeff Norris

Jeff Norris — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:07:05 +0000

Very nice, but as I like to bitch about everything. Doesn’t this just open Pandora’s box with copyright material, adult content, illegal content from one country to another etc??

4TB at home, and 1TB on web. = Very nice too.

By: djdez92

djdez92 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:55:53 +0000

wow.. Great find. I’m a dude that is constantly uploading files and sharing them with friends and family using many different services, like Photobucket, RapidShare, MediaFire and on and on. This will make it allot easier to share them, all from one place plus I get a TB of storage, whats better than that!!? Good looking out Chris, another great find!

By: Betty Bird

Betty Bird — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:14:42 +0000

Signed up pretty easy managed to pull up pics from facebook but then I tried flickr and it hasn’t worked right since think I’ll pass until they get it all ironed out.

By: ganesha23

ganesha23 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:06:54 +0000

I couldn’t get the site to work for me. I tried uploading 6-7 times in 3 different browsers(FF, Chr, IE7). It would tick off as though it were uploading but low and behold the message I would get every time would be 0 of 1 file has been uploaded. The files were non-DRM mp3 well, well below the file size limit. No help that I could find on the website not even in the FAQ. Anyone else having problems or have any suggestions. Thanks.

By: lockerhaxor

lockerhaxor — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:03:28 +0000

Wow this is great. When I saw the title I thought you were doing a giveaway, but this is even better. Thanks for the tip Chris!

By: Bill Webb

Bill Webb — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:11:54 +0000

OK. They’re ad-supported, including ads on the pages where your stuff is displayed and ads inserted into your “Oosahs.” All kinds of display ads (tastefully placed) but no pop-ups.

This looks like it has definite cloud capabilities, and they have to make $$ somehow. For the above-mentioned photo work, though, 1 TB external drives are now less than $200 US.

By: Bill Webb

Bill Webb — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:00:23 +0000

“Heck, for free what more could you ever ask for?”

First of all, I’d want to know what security arrangements there are. If they’re totally web-based, it seems like I might have to encrypt from the desktop for security, then upload. If that is the case, it would mean that I don’t have many options about retrieving or otherwise sharing the secured data.

Then I’d like to know how they’re monetized — not much sense in putting all my stuff on their site, getting used to how they do things, getting hooked up with all those other sites and then (a) having them go belly-up or (b) start charging for services.

Then there’s the issue of their servers. Are they using Amazon’s or some other reputable, reliable, redundant system, or are they running their own little farm that could be subject to outages? Do they guarantee up time?

I couldn’t find these answers in a quick browse of the site. Otherwise, it looks pretty good. The only thing I don’t care for is that they convert RAW files to high-res .jpg when uploaded. This sort of vitiates the point of RAW files, since after they’ve been converted you no longer have the editing capability that is RAW’s biggest advantage. I guess that just means that pros won’t be able to store new images online unless they’re not editing. Bummer.