Plus, maybe, the opportunity to offer some kind of premium service down the line. What does Wuala get out of it? They get a small advert in a window on the file-storage software you use to encrypt and store you files. Being a P2P service like BitTorrent, Wuala is decentralised and can harness idle resources of participating computers to build a large online storage network. You can drag and drop files, upload files in the background, open files in your favourite application, and stream media files directly. The software does this via a free desktop application for Windows and Mac which – suggest the early screen shots I’ve seen – make the service look just like a folder on your hard drive. Not even Wuala can see them, since encryption and decryption is performed locally and a member’s password is never sent to Wuala. They can’t see your files, you can’t see theirs. ![]() What we are talking about here is someone storing, on your hard drive, absolutely anything and in an un-crackable form. If that sounds like a legal and security nightmare, then it probably is. Wuala – currently in a closed alpha phase – stores a user’s files in multiple pieces, encrypted on multiple hard drives, anywhere on the Internet. Think BitTorrent for storage – but the difference is that Wuala has added ‘persistance’. Co-founder Dominik Grolimund – who is as of today, driving around in Silicon Valley pitching the idea – told me that Wuala is basically a peer-to-peer file storage and sharing system. “ Wua.la” is a startup coming out of Switzerland, which I met at the recent Future of Web Apps conference in London. ![]() Normally I like to stick to UK and Irish firms on this site but I’m going to make an exception with Wuala, because it looks pretty interesting.
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