Paul Buchheit's idea for better file uploads on browsers -- anyone want to pledge to or develop it?

I don't get it -- Flash is already ubiquitous. Why does Paul want to boil the ocean?<p>Even multi-file Flash uploaders with progress bar indicators are free and plentiful. My favorite: <a href="http://www.element-it.com/MultiPowUpload.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.element-it.com/MultiPowUpload.aspx</a><p>The only trick is getting Flash to pass session variables or some other way for the server to authenticate the user.

SWFUpload has worked awesomely for me:<p><a href="http://labb.dev.mammon.se/swfupload/" rel="nofollow">http://labb.dev.mammon.se/swfupload/</a><p>

<a href="http://jupload.sourceforge.net/applet-basic.html" rel="nofollow">http://jupload.sourceforge.net/applet-basic.html</a><p>Done. <p>Oh, right. No one likes Java. (I'm a little perplexed as to why the author defaulted to the nasty metal L&#38;F).

"I'm serious about this, and willing to pay quite a bit of money to make it happen."<p>$17 does not strike me as a lot of money. <p>Has anyone used and had success with this micropledge site?