Ouch, that sucks for those users... Jason sneered at the idea of social networking based around storage, but that's actually not a bad idea. Storage itself is

Ouch, that sucks for those users... Jason sneered at the idea of social networking based around storage, but that's actually not a bad idea. Storage itself is boring, but it's the basis of any service really. So if you add more than storing, say like sharing, publishing, and file manipulation (image editing, or Writely perhaps), then you have something particularly useful in a social context. For example, say you put a bunch of images up on your storage site and now you'd like to publish them as a gallery for your family. Wouldn't it be nice to just select them all and click a "Publish to gallery" button? Not to toot my own horn, but a previous site of mine did exactly this and about 10,000 users seemed to really like it at the time (I had to shut it down though for various reasons, including being a solo founder and trying to run two company at the same time). I imagine the future of something like that could be in integrating the various components out there already now like S3 + Google Docs + publishing to various social sites. It just seems disjointed that I have to go to separate websites to access my photos, my calendar, my documents, my friends, etc. and that none of them really work together yet...