Oosah is a Web application which offers its users a complete suite of tools to store digital files on the Web, including pictures, videos, MP3s, and slideshows. I first came across Oosah when it launched its blog back in June this year. Along these few months, Oosah has steadily improved its features, from 2GB (Gigabyte) of storage space increased to 1TB (Terabyte), i.e. 1024 Gigabytes, and also increased the maximum upload file size limit from 200MB per video, 50MB per image, 9MB per mp3 to 250MB per video, 50MB per image, and 50MB per mp3.
From the file storage space that Oosah offered to every single one of its users, I can’t stop thinking about how generously this online storage provider. For a new user, after you signing up for this service, you’ll amazed by its range of features. You are allowed to connect some external services such as Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and YouTube, and from these services, you can start to “import” the pictures or videos and all of these files will eventually by default be stored in the Oosah “cloud.” Perhaps you also can access this Oosah through its mobile site, i.e. the iPhone and iPod Touch Edition, and manage your Oosah account from a tiny phone or iPod Touch remotely, or play songs. Though this might sounds a bit like extending your storage capacity of your mobile device, but with this Oosah, it has turned your iPhone into a de facto model for a mobile desktop.
Oosah is a Web application that primarily use Adobe Flash to render its full functionality. Of course, with Flash, users are expected some sort of loading delay if they compare Flash with other technologies such as JavaScript. However, this is not the main limitation if you find out that you can’t upload documents or any executable such as software, since Oosah differentiates itself as a digital media hosting provider, not a general hosting provider that cover all kinds of users’ stuff.
Many of the Oosah’s features are common to other online storage providers such as drag-n-drop capabilities, the use of keyboard commands in the Oosah file system, tags follow with the media as you drag-n-drop the file, but with the one-click “Widget” button, it allowed a user to create her own multimedia presentation by simply drag-n-drop the photos, music, audio files or videos available in the file manager, and then combining it all. To make it become an attractive slideshow, the option of “skin” or border, or the transition effects are available for the users to choose for. Moreover, a user can share her presentation slideshow to the public by embedding it onto the blogs, or MySpace page, or even burn it to CD or DVD formats. However, there is a restriction for users to share the music or audio files as Oosah respect for copyrights and note that Digital Rights Management (DRM) protected files are not accepted by Oosah.
