Elephant Oops

Posted on May 18, 2006 No Comments

Saw a post about a new service called ElephantDrive come across Digg this morning and thought it looked interesting. Free unlimited online storage? Heck yeah! So I sent myself a sabifoo message and finally got around to checking it out tonight. Gotta like something that starts like:

ElephantDrive provides an unlimited amount of online storage for your photos, music, video, documents, whatever!

Other interesting things on the front page, like mention of free while in beta (not a mention of pricing when out of beta, but heck — how many web 2.0 companies ever actually leave beta?!?). So I click the button to get started and get presented with:

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A cardinal sin? Nah, not really. But is that what you want to see before handing over your data to a new service? I haven’t even looked into the CA yet, but it was a bit jarring…

And that’s as far as I got with that one today.

Tags: beta, elephantDrive, web2.0