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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

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Zoho Day 4: Box.net to the Rescue

- Rob Bushway

Zoho Box.net I've been complaining lately about the import process for Zoho. Well, Box.net just might have that solved, along with providing a place to store ALL of my data. For mobile users needing access to their data from multiple devices, including phones, Box.net looks quite intriguing.

After I mentioned Box.net the other day, they reached out to me after reading my article, explaining how Box.net and Zoho integrate together.

We launched our OpenBox platform back in December and Zoho was one of our launch participants.  With a single click on Box.net, users can edit and preview their documents using Zoho.  What happens is when you click on your file and say edit document, it will launch a new browser window and your document shows up in Zoho.  When changes are made and you save your document it automatically saves the file back to your Box.net account. 

Box.net offers three levels of pricing

  • Lite - comes with 1 gb of storage, file sizes being limited to 10mb. Free
  • Individual - 5gb of storage, 1gb file size limitations. $7.95 per month
  • Business - 15 gb of storage, 1 gb of storage. $19.95 per month

Box.net has set me up with an evaluation account which I'll be using over the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned for more as I put it to the test. I'll be interviewing their CEO, Aaron Levi, next week, so if you have anything you'd like to know, leave a comment and I'll try to get your question answered.

UPDATE: I just dragged and dropped a 250 mb folder of OneNote documents to my box.net account - very, very simple and easy. Upload speed is about 200 kb. I'm really interested to see how the process of editing those OneNote files will be. I'll upload my Customer project files later tonight. Looks like I might need to start a Box.net series!

Big thanks to GBM reader Nitin Badjatia for opening my eyes to Box.net!


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2/5/2008 3:19 PM MST  

Zoho Day 4: Box.net to the Rescue     Comments [4]  |  Digg This |  del.icio.us |  Citations 
Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:16:21 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
why not have an integrated Gmail Space API?

it's free, private and accessible.

blademonkey
Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:18:48 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
@blade - Well, the short answer to that is I've never heard of Gmail Space. However, I will be looking in to it know that you mention it.
Rob
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:45:14 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Box.net also has a Firefox extension for synchronizing your bookmarks
Bill
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 4:47:47 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Glad to be of assistance!

I've also been aggressively moving my non-work related computing to the cloud. The box.net/zoho solution is great, but it has its rough patches. I think the more important thing is that we can now see how this will all work eventually, consider this a glance into the world of 'situational computing'.

Nitin
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