Dear Users
We had a phenomenal launch and since then an exceptional growth resulting in a an enormous load on our servers. Yesterday (18.08.2008) we reached a new peak after 6 PM CET. This indirectly caused parts of Wuala to be temporarily unavailable. To resolve the issue, we had to temporarily disallow write operations. If you have made changes since yesterday evening, please check whether they have been correctly committed.
We are very sorry for this unexpected incident and are implementing a number of measures to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Best
Your Wuala Team
Hooray, we've launched!! Wuala is now open to everyone and can be started directly from the web!
What changes for existing users? First and foremost, you can share files with anyone, not just people who are already in Wuala. You can send a link to your friends. If they click on the link, they can open your files in Wuala - no installation and no user account required. This will make it very easy for you to share your photos, documents, etc. with anyone. Simply click on the new sharing button in the toolbar and try it out for yourself.
Thanks again, all alpha testers, for your tremendous feedback and support during our closed alpha. You've been great testers! All your feedback has made Wuala what it is now! To reflect this, we have created a
Wuala logo made up out of more than 700 user icons. If you have further, ideas, thoughts or anything else to share - tell us. We're curious and we're listening.
By the way, tonight we'll throw a little launch party (as announced) - if you have time, please stop by in our office:
www.amiando.com/wuala.
Hope to see you there!
Best,
Your Wuala team
PS: We're getting an enormous amount of traffic and new users at the moment. So please be patient if not everything runs smoothly today - we're working on it!
PPS: Press coverage has been tremendous already. Check some of the reviews we've seen so far:
Golem (DE)
Netzwertig (DE)
Computrworld (DE)
Neuerdings (DE)
Nachrichten.ch (DE)
ZDNet (DE)
Downloadsquad (EN)
Profy (EN)
PCMag (EN)
Webware by CNet (EN)
TechCrunch (EN)
ReadWriteWeb (EN)
ReadWrtieWeb 2nd article (EN)
The Nextweb (EN)
CenterNetworks (EN)
mashable (EN)
Yahoo News (EN)
ars technica (EN)
We are also very happy about the coverage in various other languages including Italian (
one,
two and
three), Spanish (
one,
two,
three,
four, ...), Portuguese (
one and
two), Greek (
one and
two),
Russian, Polish (
one,
two and
three), Dutch (
one and
two), Japanese (
one and
two),
Chinese and
Farsi.
For once, our chat will take place on a Monday. Topic for tonight is webstart - so join us today, August 11, 2008, from 8 pm to 9 pm (Central European Time, GMT+1, we're based in Zurich, Switzerland) on IRC (Server: irc.quakenet.org, Channel: #Wuala or
http://irc.wua.la).
We look forward to seeing you there!
If you don't know what time that is in your time zone, then check out the
time zone converter.
