Rubbish! Make me download an app, without much information. OK I was willing to give 2mins doing that. However, once it's downloaded and run I need to join a "wait" list of users so you cannot use the actual App. FAIL! Uninstalled.
Kind of like Jolicloud, it seems, but I gave up on it because the integration with some APIs was unstable (not necessarily out of their fault of course).<p>The younited's website is lacking some info. How does it compare to Jolicloud? What does it do? Why is there no demo? You require quite a leap of faith for me to go on, download and install your app with only a vague idea of what it is.
> "You have pictures in Facebook, Dropbox, Google Drive, Picasa. ... All kinds of stuff in different places. We didn’t want to build yet another cloud product where you store away your stuff ..."<p>So what did you build then? A community for balloon dancing?
Is it so damned hard for companies to tell us <i>what their product actually is?</i><p>I looked at the linked page and the About page and I still have no idea WTF this thing is supposed to be.<p>It drives me nuts. It's like people design these pages so they can pat themselves on the back, not to actually communicate any information.
The app looks like it's a syncing service that has the possibility to add "clouds" as source - only Google Picasa supported now. It won't transfer, which I guess means syncing to their servers, the one item I added to it.
If Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Lavabit, etc can't guarantee privacy from the NSA and the government, I really doubt younited can claim that they can. Without being able to guarantee the privacy aspect of their product, what else exactly do they have?
Doesn't the actual Picasa software handle most of these use cases?<p>Or something like this random google search result <a href="https://apps.facebook.com/picasauploader/" rel="nofollow">https://apps.facebook.com/picasauploader/</a>
How are you going to avoid your access from being pulled by the upstream providers?<p>I wouldn't be surprised if any of these services pull your access which wouldn't be a good thing for this kind of product. I guess it depends on the ToS.