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Trough La Pastilla Roja I know about another cloud-based file-storage system: Clever-Safe.

This one though has a slightly different business model, since the later has been articullated as a FLOSS project backed up by a commercial arm, wether the former keeps the software propietary and has arranged it as a social tool.

Both, however, seem to rely on the same mathematical foundation.

Voilà!, new company developes new technology that improves cloud storage; that’s Wuala. I knew from The Economist.

These guys have been more than three years constructing their architecture which consists of… your spare bandwith and disk space. By means of brand new technology based on mathematical polinomial analysis, your files are stored all over the social storing network minimising the redundancy (yes, there’s no whole file stored in a single computer neither a single computer storing a whole file, always taking into account the probability of a computer being offline). So that, hail to private cloud computing.

And I find funny (but clever) their business model: "Need more storage? No problem. Get the storage plan that fits your needs. Our technology allows us to offer extra storage at extremely competitive rates." (extracted from Wuala’s web, the underlined is ours). Sure it is!, but don’t miss their R&D costs during all this three years plus the extraordinary profit they deserve due to the clever breakthrough.

Cheers!!!

I always understood “utility” as a product/service you don’t realise you’re consuming until you’re cut off.

Internet access!!!

Probably answer given here, thanks to E.Dans’ blog.

Some business models are explained: "Freemium", Advertising, Cross-subsidies, Zero marginal cost, Labor exchange, Gift economy.

But the question raised in my previous post still remains: will we be able to monetarise it?.

It’s the Wikinomics era, ladies and gentlemen, not the sign of Aquarius. New business models have arosen to demolish the old style economy…, at least in theory. Someone could think it’s easy to establish a community, get it working, put some google ads and monetarise the toy (in the last year I’ve received invitations to join 3 or 4 social communities which later on I’ve never heard back again). This community related business is serious thing, nothing to take the mickey with as you will understand. Moreover, some firstly-it-was-thought-to-be-succesfulI business models (really?) are starting to pant (it has been suggested here); it seems Moore’s applies too to technology-related business models, not just the hardware these ones rely on!. So, will anyone be able to monetarise the community or the Bazaar will prove to be uncontrollable and we will move towards a "donation economy" as a business model? (sorry, I’m again changing thoughts without 2-weeks notice).