I see new companies, I hear the hype but wonder if the majority of us will ever find a model to prosperity. Web 1.0 was a disaster and so far Web 2.0 has had some real gut-wrenching cases...someone please tell me there is a way.

Mightbe it's time to boot up Web 3.0..

Alongside Desktop 2.0.

Vishal

The bad thing was that they just never even responded to my calls and emails on that.

I hope Omnidrive does not disappear.

Omnidrive is profitable at the moment, and we actually knocked back a round of financing recently (we will likely raise a round in the new year)

Our new 1.0 release, which we have been working on for a while now, will be out by the end of the year.

So while some might view not responding to forum posts and/or posting on our blog as a sign of being dead, it is just because we are so overloaded at the moment and have a lot to work on. Fact is that we are a small team trying to juggle a lot at the same time, and with a recent unexpected influx of users, managing our user base has been a lot of work (especially while trying to get a long-overdue release out).

Its not easy being a startup, especially one which has a lot of users - something that armchair commentators might not appreciate.

#420. A company that is too busy to update its blog is considered dead

When I finally left in August I had never been paid. Only some of my expenses were paid. The debts to me and debts I have personal knowledge of are around $AU200,000. The office manager, five Indian developers including the VP of Platform Development, the VP Engineering, the office manager, 2 QA testers, a designer and a web developer all ceased working for Omnidrive because they were not paid.

I also understand that a number of people left Omnidrive just before I started because they had not been paid.

In regards to Nik's response, as far as I know there is no one working at Omnidrive today. No one is supporting the customers. No one is developing version 1.0. The Wollongong and Sydney offices have been vacated.

Users pay for Omnidrive via a PayPal account which Nik uses as his personal account. On two occasions I know, this account was empty and servers were taken offline by the supplier because the bill was unpaid due to insufficient funds. Users in each case were told something different. e.g. It was a Denial of Service Attack: http://www.omnidrive.com/blog/2007/08/31/technical-difficulties-with-omnidrive/

I never saw any evidence that the $US170K existed. We were also told on many occasions that a number of investors had 'committed' but money never came. These so-called commitments were quite specific and the failure of money to arrive was almost a daily event.

One such event finally exposed the situation when we were told that a named investor had committed $US50K, he had wired the money to Australia and we had been given a transaction ID to prove it. More than a week passed and I finally contacted the investor directly over Skype and he told me that Nik hadn't even asked him to invest.

At this point I contacted those that I had been told were on the board of Omnidrive only to discover that there was no board.

A couple of weeks later I resigned.

I hope that this illuminates what happened at Omnidrive sufficiently to suggest that Nik's response above is dishonest at best.

http://us.intruders.tv/Interview-Nik-Cubrilovic-CEO-and-fouder-of-Omnidrive_a104.html

b) again, as above, why you need to have some trust for the company that has your data. Given what as been written by Phil, how would you feel about this company having your data? If these lies and apparent fraud is true, one wonders how anyone would want to trust this company with ANY data.

FYI - I have had very good luck with http://dropsend.com/pricingsignup.php over the last year. We have been using the $99/month service and it works very well.

Blognation had a termsheet ready to sign, 95% its editors had stuck in there to get paid before xmas and grow the business but Arrington was not going to let that happen.

I hope Arrington analyzes and criticizes Omnidrive and Edgeio CEO's in the same way. Somehow I doubt it given they are in his "gay gang"

ANSWER: They all fear Arrington who claims to fear no one. Arrington will try and bury this for Nik and his "paid friends" will help him.

QUS: Why is this story not on Techmeme if it is truly just an alogrithm.

ANSWER: It is not a algorithm it is just what Techcrunch lover Gabe Rivera chooses. No suprise TC is the no1 source on TechMeme.

And let me take this opportunity to say that the most important people in this post are the Omnidrive users. In all the personal blogger squabbles (which frankly I couldn't care less about), that fact seems to be overlooked. Is Omnidrive going to be able to serve its current customers, many of whom are paying money for the service?

You Seesmic video only shows you talking... there's no indication Arrington was even on the other end of the conversation much less "engaged".