S4ve.as: Upload Any Size File, Get a Bit.ly Link for 24 Hours

Written by Jolie O'Dell / August 28, 2009 1:55 PM / 4 Comments

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For anyone who deals with large files or multimedia content, file sharing can be the bane of one's existence sometimes. And trying to find workable solutions for these individuals involves a ton of capital expense and overhead in terms of server storage and bandwidth.

S4ve.as has a nice stopgap solution: They'll host any file, any size, for up to 24 hours. Sometimes, 24 hours is just enough time to get that 5GB video footage from one hard drive to another. For this reason, we like S4ve.as. They're so l337.

As far as we can tell, s4ve.as is a free version of parent company Media Hog's yet-to-be-release digital assets management platform. It's one of the simplest systems we've seen around the web.

File uploads are relatively quick, require no login, have no weird redirects for downloading.

S4ve.as is, in a word, elegant.

Take a look at these screenshots, and definitely try out the service on your larger files. We plan to do the same as soon as we have the time and bandwidth.

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I know, the address is obvious but you may want to add a link to their website. Or maybe I'm just blind :)

Posted by: Timo Reitnauer | August 28, 2009 11:56 PM

very simple and clever with the 24 hour limit. they can upsell longer time periods.

filesocial also has made nice improvements recently.

i recently deployed a prototype for twitter file sharing that may be of interest.

http://tweetFTP.com

files can be downloaded from twitter or directly but the link cannot be added to and served from other web pages (deep-linking). so, no embedding images, video, audio, docs etc. just simple file sharing.

the service also uses bit.ly links so to leverage their own tracking features.

also, OAUTH and SSL are implemented.
java is used for uploading.

it's just a proof of concept with a small group of test users.
new dev has started for features like the ability to securely use your own ftp server or optionally setup a tweetftp account where you can use your ftp client software to manage uploaded files.

would not mind having a few more test users :)

Posted by: tweetftp | August 29, 2009 12:20 AM