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I want to share my startup ParaBlu (http://www.parablu.com) and get your views on it.
ParaBlu, the product, helps you create your own personal cloud, on one of your computers, and have all your data in there. You can access this data from any other computer, and a mobile device. It works on Windows, Linux and Android right now. We'll support OS X and the iOS in the next couple of months, too.
The main focus of the product is privacy and control of your data. Since everything is with you, on your computers, it's completely private and you remain in total control of it. The other major benefit is that you can get (almost) unlimited storage. We don't put any restrictions; use as much space as your computer has, and, in fact, you can add external hard drives if you need to store and sync more.
Other than this, you get all that you get with a traditional public cloud. You have access to your files anywhere, anytime. It works on devices you have installed it on, and even on devices you haven't (you'd have to use the Internet to access your files). There are some other interesting things we're doing including de-duplication which allows you to store more data, the best search that a cloud service has (search within the documents, etc.) and a lot of other things.
I'd love to have you take a look at it, and share your feedback. We are in private beta (and shooting for a January 2013 launch), and we would love to hear any suggestions/questions you might have.
You can find more here: http://www.parablu.com/features
Thanks for your time!