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YouSendIt – Digital File Delivery

YouSendIt is an online file publishing service that allows users to send big files to other recipients without worrying about hosting issues, bandwidth consumption or other problems that are associated with this topic.

The service offers 4 pricing plans:

  • lite, a free ad-supported service which limits the maximum file size to 50 MB,
  • pro, $49.99 per year, which increases the maximum file size to 2 GB,
  • pro plus, $149.99 per year, which makes the total storage size unlimited,
  • corporate suite, aimed at multi-user configurations (starts at $999.99 per year for 5 users).

The site was launched in July 2003 and they’ve had a phenomenal growth since then. Compete shows an average of 1 million unique visitors per month in the last year.

The company was created by Amir Shaikh, Khalid Shaikh and Ranjith Kumaran. It managed to raise over $50 million dollars across several funding series. Although YouSendIt links are frequently shared on websites, the company has recently marketed itself as a method of business communication to differentiate itself from RapidShare and other similar tools.

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List.ly – Collaborative Lists

Listly

List.ly is an online tool for building collaborative lists. Upon sharing the lists, other users can contribute to them or see what others have added. Each entry in the list can be voted upon, in order to produce democratically a ranking order.

Lists can be easily embedded in external websites. The List.ly homepage features trending lists that get the most attention. A search bar for retrieving lists by keywords is also provided.

List.ly was launched in April 2011 and currently it attracts consistently over one thousand unique visitors each month, according to Compete.

The service was formerly known as twtpickin and it was founded by Shyam Subramanyan. In his Google Profile he is currently listed as founder for BoomyLabs.com .

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280Slides – Online Presentations

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Mavenlink – Online Collaboration Tools

Mavenlink

Mavenlink provides browser-based team collaboration tools that enable anyone to deliver client services using a centralized dashboard panel. It  offers time and invoice tracking, collaborative file sharing and email integration.

The company offers several pricing plans; the free plan allows up to 3 active projects, while paid plans charge $39/month for individuals or $79/month for small teams.

Mavenlink is integrated with PayPal, in the sense that payment or invoices can be made or received using PayPal. The site offers full integration with the Google Apps platform. In May 2011, the Google Apps Marketplace selected Mavenlink as their first recommended staff pick in the entire Marketplace. The site gets around 10’000 unique visitors each month.

The service was founded in 2008 by Ray Grainger, Sean Crafts, and Roger Neel. Ray currently acts as Chief Executive Officer. The company currently operates in Irvine and San Francisco.

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WorkFlowy – Organize Your Brain

WorkFlowy

WorkFlowy is a browser-based to-do tracker tool which allows users to organize their tasks in an hierarchical tree-based structure.

The app allows each to-do task to be marked with one or several tags for easy retrieval in the future via tag-based search. In addition to the traditional site, WorkFlowy has a special version dedicated to mobile devices.

The app features on its homepage a list of impressive testimonials, one of them being from Matt Cutts, head of Google webspam efforts, which states that the project has become one of three tabs that he keeps open in the browser, along with Gmail and Google Calendar.

The site was launched in September 2010 by co-founders Jesse Patel and Mike Turitzin. It has around 10’000 visitors on a monthly basis and it has been featured extensively in tech blogs such as TechCrunch, TheNextWeb and LifeHacker.

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Bizodo – Online Form Builder

Bizodo

Bizodo is a free point and click online form builder that helps users collect and manage forms with ease. Users can create online forms, surveys, event registration or contact forms to be used either with a custom web address from Bizodo or to be easily embed in an existing site. Once the forms are filled, that information can be easily used to create mailing lists or to follow up on specific tasks.

Bizodo offers related tools that help small business owners to stay organized and productive. The project management tools keep people effective, while a cloud document manager allows users to easily store, organize and share documents collected from online forms. The contact manager ensures easy collaboration and proper follow-ups on contacts.

The site offers a freemium model where no credit card is required. The paid plans start at $29/month and offer a money back guarantee as well as complete customer support.

Bizodo was founded in February 2011 by a team of lead generation and online marketing veterans, having Jonathon Ende as CEO. It recently exited out of beta. While external sites have limited traffic information about the service, the easy tools offered and the degree of integration between them position the project for sustainable growth in the near future.

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Mozy – Online Backup

Mozy

Mozy is an online backup service designed for both Windows and Mac computers. It offers clients for mobile platforms, including iPad and Android tablets, allowing remote access to the backed up content from mobile devices.

Mozy produces two products, MozyHome and MozyPro. The first is a version targeted for individual consumers, while the later is the business class version. The site offers 2 GB of storage for free, while paid plans start at $5.99/month for 50GB of storage.

In the last year the service constantly attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors each month. In May 2010, Mozy launched version 2.0 of its service, adding support for local backup and an improved user interface.

The company was founded in 2005. In 2007, the Mozy product line was sold to EMC for for $76 million dollars. As of April 2011, Mozy is operated by VMware and Mozy’s staff is being integrated into VMware.

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Socialcam – Share Mobile Videos With Friends

Socialcam

Socialcam is a mobile app available on both iPhone and Android which allows users to record videos from their mobile phones and then tag, upload and share them with the world at large (as well as browse, comment and like videos from their friends).

Socialcam was created by the Justin.tv team, which proved immensely useful to them in terms of expertise, reputation and infrastructure. Work on the site began in 2010 and it launched officially at the beginning of 2011. Until now it enjoys tens of thousands of users on a monthly basis.

The app can be installed for free from both the iTunes and the Android markets, where it enjoys a 4-star average rating (out of a maximum of 5). The app had 1 million downloads in its first four months, and one third of the users who have signed up for the service have also created at least one video in their account.

In October 2011 the company announced the addition of video filters to its list of features. The list of available filters includes Bohemian, Noir, Sepia and Rouge, along with experimental filters like Electronica, Acid and Foil. The company also announced that it reached over 2 million total downloads, which puts it in a great position for further growth in the near future as it continues to develop the app.

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Wuala – Secure Online Storage

Wuala

Wuala is a online storage solution developed in Switzerland. The service is based on 4 main features: backup files on the Wuala servers, sync files across multiple devices, share things with your friends and secure your content by encrypting it before transmitting it over the Internet.

The company advertises itself as being one of the most secure alternatives in the cloud storage industry due to its full client-side encryption process. It provides a client utility for several platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux and Mobile. In each of the last 12 months Wuala managed consistently to attract tens of thousands of visitors to its website.

Wuala offers several pricing plans. The free edition includes 2 GB of free storage, while paid plans start at 10 GB of storage for 19 EUR per year.

The service started as a research project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. It got incorporated as a private company under the name Caleido AG, but in March 2009 the site got acquired by LaCie, a French-based company, to complement its existent external hard drive business. Today Wuala offers sign-up discounts for LaCie customers, such as 10 GB for one year upon the acquisition of a LaCie external hard drive, or 4 GB for two years for a LaCie USB flash drive.

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SugarSync – Access Your Data

SugarSync

SugarSync is a file sync and online backup tool that allows users to access their files across all their devices via a unified storage system.

SugarSync supports Macs, PCs, iPhone, iPads, Android, Blackberries as well as other mobile devices. Users can login into their account, sync content from multiple devices as well as access or update documents on the go.

The site currently offers 4 pricing plans varying from 30 GB up to 250 GB of storage, with fees from $5 USD/month up to $25 USD/month. There are group plans available for business customers. Users can also sign up for a free plan that offers 5 GB of free storage.

Compete shows the site’s traffic at around 100’000 unique monthly visitors. At the end of December 2008, the company raised in total $26.5 million USD from venture capitalists; both founders left the company one month earlier (in November 2008). SugarSync is currently headed by acting CEO Laura Yecies.

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