MediaFire is a website which offers free file hosting & sharing services. Unlike most services, it does not require registration and doesn’t cap bandwidth, upload size, amounts of simultaneous downloads and uploads and doesn’t appear to have many, if any, adverts.
There are a few other file hosting & sharing services out there. These range from the Web 2.0 Box.net and Box.net lite, to Rapidshare (which I seem to have trouble downloading from) and MegaUpload.
Personally, I find Box.net a bit complex if you merely wish to share a file (although Box.net lite is much better), Rapidshare too restrictive (my IP can’t download from them, for example) and MegaUpload too ad-filled. All of these services are fast though, and the latter two offer some form of revenue sharing (which is somewhat ironic considering so much copyright law is breached on these sites).
MediaFire looks extremely Web 2.0, and is quite light compared to the vast majority of sites which offer similar services. MediaFire also seems pretty fast, I like the way it tells you how many Kbps you are achieving when you’re uploading (I’m currently getting about 210Kbps which is pretty impressive considering I’ve only got a 256Kbps uplink). The upload process, including the speedometer, is done through Ajax.
If you sign up for a free account, you get better management of your files. Although this is currently limited to the ability to seeing a list of your uploaded files and the ability to delete them, it would be nice to see the ability to count downloads. Also, MediaFire allows you to send files to Yahoo! IM or AIM buddies (but not MSN or Gtalk).
An example of a file I uploaded is the Creative Commons copyrighted ‘Heavy Eyelids’ by Eric Skiff. It is available to download from MediaFire here, Archive.org here or Gnutella here.
Tags: web 2.0, web2, web 2, web2.0, ajax, mediafire, hosting
very cool! I’m checking it out.
Yep, I’m back. And yours is the 1st blog I’m reading!
Box.net is for me.
Wow, that old tune keeps popping up here and there
I really wish I could work with someone who knew what they were doing recording-wise and lay an awesome version of that track. Listening back to it makes me cringe a bit, lol.
Cool that you were able to use it thanks to the CC license. That’s what it’s all about
Hi,
it sounds quite good, I tested it, and I liked it.
It’s just a pity that you need Javascript, but that’s normal with “web 2.0″ apps…
Cheers,
Moritz
On website listed below just insert a Megaupload Link to get your Premium Download link.
For Megaupload:
http://www.oopar.com/megaupload/
For Rapidshare:
http://www.oopar.com/rapidshare/
I downloaded the hacking tools and it works. Here’s some working accounts that it actually gave me!
http://rapidshare.com/files/15604276/RS_Hacked_Accounts.zip
I have bought a rapidshare account 15 days ago. They said that I ca download maximum 25GB in 5 days. I am not using more than 3/4 GB per day but they said that I have exceeded my download limit so I am not able to download using download manager, but when I am trying to download same file using normal browser without using download manager I am able to download. So it is not true that I ahave exceed my download limit. They are not allowing me to use download manager.
IF YOU ARE THINKING TO BUY A RAPIDSHARE ACCOUNT PLESE THINK AGAIN. THEY ARE NOT REPUTED COMPANY.
Why you guys still using Megaupload and Rapidshare?? It always doesn’t work and outdated already!
Sounds great when Mediafire at the start, but they finally cannot afford and cut-off many areas bandwidth, and limited to 100Mb per file and 70 days unavailable if no one download.
I prefer Nakido for upload as it provide real unlimited upload and download, actually it was already become very popular in Asia area as they always accept new technology so fast. Check it out:
http://www.nakido.com