Aaron Levie invited Clipperz to an early preview of a revamped version of Box.net, an online storage service. I played with the new Box.net for a couple of days and the overall impression is quite positive. I’m happy they dropped all the references to “documents”, “music” and “photos” from the menus, it was just confusing and added nothing to the functionalities.

There are still some little bugs here and there, and the interfaces requires some improvements (especially actions on multiple items). Nonetheless Box.net has already a nice set of features: drag’n’drop uploader, RSS feeds, tagging, sharing, etc.
Aaron says that some sync tool will be released soon and this is badly needed, in fact, as of today, I can think of Box.net more as a file sharing service than an online storage/backup service.

I first heard about Box.net from Silicon Beat and I was struck by two odd details:

1. Aaron vision of this sector: “The [online storage] industry still has plenty of years before massive adoption, so we’re working hard to position ourselves on top …”

2. Angel funding from Mark Cuban.

Box.net could nicely fit in Mark Cuban plans to build a delivery platform for high-definition video, see this post, nonetheless a seed investment in a tiny start-up from a big guy is something that deserves respect. (Nothing similar will never happen in the Italian depressing economic landscape.)