Ubuntu officially released their Mac client for the Ubuntu One service, here is a summary of what you get:
Follow the link and try it out. Works with OS X 10.6 or later.
GigaOm:
The first 5 GB are free, but every additional 25 GB is going to cost you about $2.50 a month or about $30 a year. The 100 GB will cost you $5 a month or about $60 a year. You can buy up to 16 terabytes of storage capacity. The Drive marries elements of Dropbox, iCloud and other popular apps such as Evernote. (Continue Reading)
Dropbox:
We’re super excited to announce a whole new way to share: now you can send a link to the files or folders in your Dropbox!
Sharing with friends and family is easy! Once you’ve saved that video of your niece’s birthday party to Dropbox, just make a link to send to grandma and she can simply watch online — no download required! This saves you the hassle of having to re-upload or attach it to an email. (Continue Reading)
TNW:
Sometimes we get lucky, and today is one of those days. I got a draft release from a partner of Google’s upcoming Google Drive service and it gives away a wealth of information about how Google plans to take on the incumbent Dropbox. The short story? 5 GB of storage, and it launches next week…
If it’s 5 GB for free, that is awesome. The thing is how easy to use will it be, because Dropbox is stupid simple. It has to at least match that, but this is Google we’re talking about, not always the best at user interfaces. We’ll see.
How much space is that, exactly? For every friend you invite that installs Dropbox, you’ll both get 500 MB of free space. If you’ve got a free account, you can invite up to 32 people for a whopping total of 16 GB of extra space. Pro accounts now earn 1 GB per referral, for a total of 32 GB of extra space. Have you already invited a bunch of people? Don’t worry. Within a few days, you’ll get full credit for every referral that’s already been completed. Boom!
I’m going to be referring a lot of people.
From the MSDN Blog:
It looks cool, a mixture of Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Docs. If they add an OS X app for this, with 25 GB of free storage, Dropbox will get a run for it’s money. Google Docs too, as useful as they are, they look like crap, at least with Office they would look decent. iCloud is not threatened by this as much in my opinion, because the integration of iClod with iOS and OS X is something that SkyDrive will not have (unless Apple changes the way things work in a big way).
