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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
This was sortof funny to see:
http://www.studentstory.in/2012/06/win-ipad-reviewing-worlddesk/?goback=%2Egde_1891552_member_128172718
This is StickyDrive 2.0
StickyDrive was a 2005 SV startup I was part of, founded by my cousin Sol.
"An operating system on a flashdisk"
Its funny to see things tried over again (in fact this is the fourth such project I've seen in the past years), when they either fail to execute or simply come out before their "time".
Ironically with Sol, he had alot of great visions and this wasnt the only startup he founded which was before its time. "Twitter Video" (12 sec video clips @ www.12seconds.tv) was also a thing he built after StickyDrive was acquired by DeviceVM, but it plateaued at about 150k users if I recall correctly - and they shut it down in 2010 I believe after it wouldnt grow past that.
Its always funny in this industry to see ideas and projects effectively "reanimated" as time goes by...
Sometimes its just about right timing, and a bit of skill in execution.
In any case - this WorldDesktop project is a bit past its time, IMO.
Flash disks are becoming a thing of the past, a less useful commodity, and cloud-based web storage is whats leading the path.
So I dont think this project will do much in this space either. It was a pretty hit-or-miss chance for this type of platform between 2004 and 2009 I'd say. Nothing really caught on. Kingston has their urDrive and Sandisk made one too... all of them relatively ineffective in the end as added value for either company.
http://www.studentstory.in/2012/06/win-ipad-reviewing-worlddesk/?goback=%2Egde_1891552_member_128172718
This is StickyDrive 2.0
StickyDrive was a 2005 SV startup I was part of, founded by my cousin Sol.
"An operating system on a flashdisk"
Its funny to see things tried over again (in fact this is the fourth such project I've seen in the past years), when they either fail to execute or simply come out before their "time".
Ironically with Sol, he had alot of great visions and this wasnt the only startup he founded which was before its time. "Twitter Video" (12 sec video clips @ www.12seconds.tv) was also a thing he built after StickyDrive was acquired by DeviceVM, but it plateaued at about 150k users if I recall correctly - and they shut it down in 2010 I believe after it wouldnt grow past that.
Its always funny in this industry to see ideas and projects effectively "reanimated" as time goes by...
Sometimes its just about right timing, and a bit of skill in execution.
In any case - this WorldDesktop project is a bit past its time, IMO.
Flash disks are becoming a thing of the past, a less useful commodity, and cloud-based web storage is whats leading the path.
So I dont think this project will do much in this space either. It was a pretty hit-or-miss chance for this type of platform between 2004 and 2009 I'd say. Nothing really caught on. Kingston has their urDrive and Sandisk made one too... all of them relatively ineffective in the end as added value for either company.
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