digitalbucket.net Blog

Map a Secure WebFolder to your digitalbucket.net account using WebDAV. No software installation, since WebDAV is built into most operating systems. Using this feature, you can Open, Edit and Save remote files directly from your applications. Also Copy/Paste or Drag-n-Drop files and folders between your local computer and your digitalbucket.net account.

Please visit here for more information. 

 -Greg

One of our loyal customers brought up an issue with our WebDAV support that held us back releasing this feature. We are expecting to provide a fix by December 19th. We are sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused.

-Greg

The 2008 Crunchies event from TechCrunch is an award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. If you love digitalbucket.net, please nominate us for Best New Startup and/or Best Design.

Even if you think we’re not worthy, please go nominate your favorite startups. It really means a lot to the teams that work on these companies.

Five finalists will be selected for each award category and popular voting will run from December 15 – January 5, 2009 Midnight PST. The winners will be announced live at the award ceremony on January 9 in San Francisco.

Thanks for your vote,
-Greg

We are working hard to meet our release deadline on Nov. 13th. November was pretty busy development month for our team as we worked closely with our customers to fulfill their requirements. We've also had a record number of new customers joining us during the month of November.

Here are the new upcoming exciting features...

• 1- File Version history support. An intuitive way of keep track of file changes.
• 2- WebDAV support
• 3- Google Chrome browser support. This browser is extremely fast. You've got to try it to see the difference.
• 4- New updates for Mac users. We fixed advanced upload issue for Mac users.
• 5- Video Playback support for all the operating systems and browsers.
• 6- And lots of minor stuff

We are also changing our pricing schema and plan structures. After this release we no longer offer Lite accounts. Current Lite account customers will still continue with their subscription. We are also changing the Individual and Business plans and adding a new plan called Enterprise.

Please stay tuned as we complete our long list of tasks next week.

-Greg

Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) enables users of many desktop applications to seamlessly interface those applications with digitalbucket.net online solutions. This will enable all content collaborates in the enterprise to access the full benefits of digitalbucket.net. Support for WebDAV is a key addition to our feature rich solution.

This feature will allow users to access their files right from Windows Explorer, Mac OS X Finder or from Linux.

Another example is to use Synchronization tools like Microsoft SyncToy or GoodSync to keep your local and remote drives in sync. Please stay tuned until we complete our final tests.

-Greg

Our devoted team continues innovating new features and improving the operational performance of our services. This commitment is evident in several newly introduced features below. Please share your ideas and suggestions with us.
See what's new with digitalbucket.net - below are the latest services and ideas that make digitalbucket.net even better platform for preserving, sharing and collaborating your digital data online.

New Features
New format for Published Links: File or Folder's names are now part of the published links. This is especially useful for users who want to access the published files through widgets or 3rd party applications/web sites.

Upload by email: Forward your emails with attachments to upload@digitalbucket.net and the attachments will be extracted to your account.

Address book: A new Address book has been developed to store your contacts. You can define different contact groups and import your contacts from all the major email providers. For the Business accounts, contacts defined in groups can be shared with sub accounts.

Sub domain Rebranding: Enterprise users can have their own branded sub domain. This newly developed rebranding feature allows Businesses to direct their associates to a completely customized sub domain in the form of <yourcompanyname.digitalbucket.net>. Please contact us for more information.

New Audio Player: Drag and drop your music files to this audio player and create your playlist. Listen to your favorite music while you're uploading files and viewing your photo albums!

New web site and blog: We have redesigned our web site. Expect more content in the web site and share your suggestions in our blog.

API News
Keypass is a desktop password management tool that runs on both Windows and Linux. KeePassSync is a KeePass plug-in that synchronizes your database using digitalbucket.net API. This allows two or more computers to easily keep their data in sync.

Case Studies
DeBortoli Wines is one of the largest winemakers in Australia chooses digitalbucket.net to help their marketing/export departments interact with external designers. Digitalbucket.net's ability to provide publishing access for the internal sub-accounts and share. Read more.

Thank You,
The digitalbucket.net Team
www.digitalbucket.net

We are excited that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) finally is going to offer the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server starting later this Fall.

This is absolutely great news for us at digitalbucket.net. We have been asking AWS team about Windows on EC2 since we started this business almost 2 years ago. EC2 offers variety of Unix-based operating systems which is not an option for us to use.

AWS competitors have been promising they’d be coming out for years now and I’m shocked they’ve given Amazon this much runway. Now, we’re extremely happy with Amazon, so we have no plans to switch, but competition is good for everyone - and Amazon is a fierce competitor.

With this new EC2 offering we definitely going to plan to migrate our hosted servers to the cloud computing and be more fierce competitor. That will translate even higher scalability, reliability and of course lower prices for our customers. Stay tuned.

- Greg

Welcome to the official digitalbucket.net blog! The goal of this blog is to create an online space where individuals can help make digitalbucket.net a better product.

This blog will be one of the best places to visit if you want to follow or contribute to a conversation regarding any of digitalbucket.net services. We are hoping users will post their ideas or concerns here so that our staff can quickly and effectively address them, and so that other users can learn from the early experiences.

Please post your feedback or any issue you might encounter with our product on this blog.

Thank you for your help and support

-Greg

See what's new with digitalbucket.net - below are the latest innovations, services and ideas that make it even easier to share data and collaborate online. We love to hear from you. Keep those ideas and suggestions coming! Thank You.

New Features
SharePage: SharePage is an HTML page for integrating information, links and files across account boundaries. It is designed to provide a centralize access point for communication between admin and the sub accounts. SharePage is available for business accounts.

Windows Live Messenger: Windows Live Messenger is now part of your digitalbucket.net account. Login to the Windows Live Messenger using your Microsoft Live account and chat or share files with your buddies. To share files simply drag and drop them from the File Manager to the Messenger.

Theme and Backgrounds: Customize your account the way you like. With different themes and backgrounds, you can change your desktop appearance with dialogs coloring scheme and backgrounds. Select an image and set it as background.

Virtual Drive (BETA): Install digitalbucket.net's Virtual Drive on your Windows XP or Vista and get access to your digitalbucket.net files right from your Windows Explorer. Easily drag and drop files to the VD or vice versa. Use VD to upload the entire folder at once.

Advanced Sub accounts: Sub accounts are now capable of publishing files/folders. All folder publishing features like expiration, password protection and comments are available for sub accounts.

Sub Accounts Management: It is now easier to manger sub accounts. Account's admin can now easily view sub accounts in the tree node and quickly determine what folders with what permissions have been assigned to each sub account.

API News
The most anticipated feature is finally here. digitalbucet.net is now offering beta release of Virtual Drive for Windows Operating System for early testing and feedback. Virtual Drive has been developed using digitalbucket.net API. Download and install the Virtual Drive for Windows and try it out.

Case Studies
Second fastest-growing franchise in the Restaurant Business in the US chooses digitalbucket.net over Microsoft SharePoint for the sharing of corporate marketing material, training content, menu details, and franchisee specific financial and operational information. Read more.

News
We are offering Students and Schools with 1GB free accounts. The account email address must be in the form of .edu or have the school name in it. Please let us know if you are in academia and we will upgrade your account.

Thank You,
The digitalbucket.net Team
www.digitalbucket.net

I am delighted to announce that digitalbucket.net has ended the BETA phase as of Feb 8th 2008 and is open for business. Thank you all who bear with us during the beta period and provided us with constructive comments, bugs and suggestions.

Great News for Students
Students who sign up with .edu email accounts will continue to enjoy 1GB free storage.

Exciting New Features
We are excited to announce a number of new features that our team has been working on over the past months:

1. Web FTP Client: Say good bye to grand daddy FTP. Now you can connect to any FTP sites from your account and drag and drop files or folders to your digitalbucket.net account or vice versa. This feature is extremely helpful for the users, who want to backup their account on a FTP server.
   It is also useful for existing FTP account holders, who want to transfer their files from FTP servers to digitalbucket.net and take advantage of the digiatlbucket.net's state of the art user interface.
2. Anonymous FTP URL uploads: You can specify a URL as Anonymous FTP and digitalbucket.net's FTP manager uploads the file to your digitalbucket.net account.
3. Branding: Business account holders can customize the web desktop with their logo for their clients. This branding is also available for sub accounts as well as published folders and photo albums.

Please feel free to contact us with any suggestions or comments.

Thank You,
-Greg