BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. Free Information on EVault 1-866-928-0735 Best Buy and Napster WikiPedia for Spies Dropbox Rules SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST Breaking Business Models by Andrew McCaskey by Andrew McCaskey There is nothing so short as the half life of a business model for an online service. For the past few days I have been using the DropBox application, on recommendation of another Tech Podcaster - Mark Bradley of the Antipodean Podcast. Mark volunteered a beta invite to me after a quick post on Twitter. It turned out that it had just come out of closed beta that day, and I was able to download without problems. With 2GB of free storage on Amazon S3, amazing speed after initial upload (since it sends only file changes) and the ability to run on every box in the house make it a real pleasure. Trips up and down stairs bearing thumb drives almost a thing of the past, except for one XP based audio workstation that will not see the light of the net. At least until the next upgrade of the App, and hopefully never an upgrade of XP pushed in the dark of night and breaking things for the next week. My only complaint is a heavy footprint on XP boxes, about 50MB of RAM for the app. I’ll get around to the Vista laptop later in the week, Google “free on line Storage” and you find 13.6 Million entries, of which 13.59 Million now have, thanks to DropBox, broken business models. Apparently DropBox will be making its money for commercial versions with revision control, rollback, versioning, multiple editor lockouts and similar safeguards. Additional storage for photos and videos has got to be in the plan. If you had a business offering free online storage, I’m afraid your game has changed. Contact Us CES 2008 Coverage for Tech Podcast Network New VLC Media Player Watch Today’s Video Episode Click to view videos submitted or recommended by other SDR podcast listeners. . . If you find a YouTube video that pertains to one of our news items, or have produced an item that would be of interest to SDR listeners, please send us the link slashdotreview{at}gmail.com Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com! Be sure to sign up for our upcoming roundtable. We will be using GoToMeeting. Also, be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH2 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview… Slashdot Review by Email - Sign up here: Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz Less