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Interview with David Zhao from Zumo Drive

“David is a technologist who spent the past 6 years building applications for the Web. Prior to Zecter, David developed applications and services at Amazon, where he got a taste of writing internet-scale applications and cloud computing.”

Today’s article is a bit technical and abstract but nonetheless interesting. Read our interview with David Zhao from Zumo Drive.

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ZumoDrive: Your Hard Disk Will Never Be Full

ZumoDrive is a newcomer to the cloud storage market, launched in December last year, and unlike Amazon S3, they strive to improve the overall user experience. Why would you want ZumoDrive? ZumoDrive provides you with a hard disk in the cloud, which you can access at any time: from the web, from a computer or from an iPhone.

 

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Wixi: A Social Network For Your Media

Wixi is a new kind of social network – focusing less on messaging, relationships and poke applications – and more on stuff you care about; documents, photos, music and videos. Wixi enables you to easily upload, manage, and share files with your friends – and never have to worry about carrying a bulky hard drive with you.

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Folder Sync Battle: Dropbox vs SugarSync

 

I have a Mac laptop and a PC desktop at home. I also use Bootcamp with Windows XP and have several virtual machines (Vista, Ubuntu) installed with VMware and VirtualBox.

I want an easy way of syncing my files from the Mac at home with the PC at work without having to leave the Mac open all day long, like with Windows Live Folder Share.

  • When running  Windows in Bootcamp I don’t want to buy MacDrive to access the Mac partition
  • When on the Mac I don’t want to buy Paragon NTFS just to work on a few files.
  • I want to transfer files between my Mac and desktop PC  and I don’t want to go through the hassle of setting up a home network between the two and fiddle with the sharing options – I may forget to unshare folders on my Mac, inviting everybody to steal my files when connected to a hotspot.
  • When playing with Virtual Machine software I don’t want to learn how to use VM shared folders. I want an easy way of transferring a bunch of files on all my virtual machines, no matter what VM software I use.

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