Unifying the Clouds
There really are too many cloud file storage services. Dropbox is, what I consider, the industry standard but there’s also Box.net, Amazon, the popular Google Docs, and many others exist. Until now, accessing all of these services meant bouncing around from one to the next, using separate usernames and passwords. Otixo, a service that recently completed its beta and launched (congrats!) aims to fix all of that.
I’ve used the service throughout the beta period, and I’m happy to say that it’s awesome.
Once you’ve created an account, you simply tie together your different services (similar to how Mint.com ties together bank accounts)
For example, I’ve setup:
- Box.net
- Google Docs (personal + work)
- Dropbox
- Picasa
- FTP
Once that’s done, you can share files directly from Otixo, create Workspaces, which brings files from different services into one singular folder, and most importantly: Access the files online from Otixo and mount the Otixo drive on your computer.
Things I’m in love with: Being able to literally drag files from my memory card into a folder on my computer and have it automatically upload to my Picasa and being able to make changes to my website (via FTP) 10x faster. Combined with Transmit FTP (which mounts Webdav folders better than the built-in Mac OS X Webdav client [just an opinion, not a fact]), I think I’ve found a perfect solution to a problem I didn’t necesarily know I had.
Consider yourself a cloud warrior? Check this site out.