Box.net - myFolder

Tags: ajax, box.net
Written by: kamasheto

I’m giving this website 10/10 7/10 for it’s services, innovation, and technical power and control over their services. Box.net is powered by AJAX (here we go again) and flash; which in return both make a perfect combination for an excellent user interface and user-friendly services. As some of you might have noticed, it offers audio players for audio files uploaded through their upload page located at http://box.net/lite and direct download links for share anywhere you prefer.

Something I noticed just today (or I knew of but didn’t get to actually give it a try until now) was their user file’s sharing, which gives each registered user a widget that he can post anywhere and thus upload any files to it for download to anyone who sees the widget. Owners of widgets can delete, move, rename, upload files through the widget without having to visit box.net.

Well, I changed my mind. All uploads through the flash widget failed, and the ones which didn’t fail were a mess - I uploaded a song and when I tried to play it back, I was surprised to how the singer sounded, he was definitely not a human being then - more like a monkey needing help! Anyway, let’s stick to the more reliable way, the public box.

One remarkable feature of box.net is that it is 100% ads-free, meaning not a single ad -either popup or adsense- is visible on any of the pages (they do however have a google-analytics JavaScript file that I presume gives stats about the website).

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