PayPal to offer Online Storage, Online Storage Market to heatup

Categories: Data Storage, Web UsagePosted on September 22nd, 2006

Details are not fully fleshed out, however I’m not surprised as TechCrunch reports. More news on Techmeme. I predict that nearly every major website will offer online storage.

Read my thoughts on the Future of Online Storage, or cruise all posts labeled Data Storage.

David Berkowitz from MediaPost commenents on the search marketing angle to it. We discuss that at some point the model will flip and online data storage companies will PAY consumers to upload content. (Revver has started that model with Online Video)

There are so many online storage companies, see this here and here.

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Dennis McDonald

Jeremiah -

I read your "40 points." Very interesting! I'm also interested in what happens to the data beyond your being able to access it from multiple locations/computers (as I do now with Dabble DB). I'd also like to see online storage companies pay people for identity information (for example, pay me for access to my personal health and financial information) so that folks are compensated for the the value generated from use of personal data, as I discussed here:
http://www.ddmcd.com/buy_and_sell.html

- Dennis

Mark

Did you ever see anything come of this? The eBay/Paypal infrastructure would of course be more than capable of running this kind of service, but we only really hear about the usual players - Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc. eBay should really get their foot in the door!

jeremiah_owyang

Nope never saw anything

Steve

I have not seen any sort of online storage product from Paypal. But with the many free or low cost services available now, it woould be intersting to see hpw they compete with the likes of Mozy, Carbonite, SpiderOak, IBackup and ElephantDrive.