The Wuala team informs today about the immediate launch of their services as public beta. Everybody can now try wuala and share her media over the distributed storage solution.
“After more than three years of development and ten months of testing in closed alpha, we are very proud to release Wuala to the public”, says Dominik Grolimund, CEO. “Our alpha users, who are storing and sharing millions of files, have given us tremendous feedback and use Wuala very actively and with great enthusiasm. We believe that Wuala is the right tool for millions of people to securely manage and share their files online.”
The beta offers a new way to share and manage your files: It is no longer required - but still possible - to install the Wuala client on your computer.
The closed alpha, which had been released in September 2007, has been very successful and generated a lot of buzz. Tens of thousands of people and thousands of communities around the world are actively sharing millions of files in Wuala. Now that Wuala is available for everyone, it’s ready to scale up to millions of people.
How to use Wuala
If you just want to take a quick look how Wuala works just click on the Start button on Wua.la. The web client will launch and you can browse all public files and download them. Once you have decided to install the desktop client, select “Setup Wuala on this computer”. After the installation you are asked to create a new account. This will allow you to upload your files and only share them with your friends, if you want that.
And if your need for space is greater than the 1 GB Wuala initially gives you, you can share your computer’s space or buy additional storage from Wuala.
More features can be found on the new designed web page.
