• Simple accounts: Use filicio.us on it’s own and pay filicio.us directly for your usage. The price model is much the same a Amazon’s, but we need to charge a bit more than Amazon to have it make economic sense to handle payments. The great thing about the simple account is that you don’t need to sign up with Amazon and then provide filicio.us with you secret key just to get going…
• Advanced account: The choice for the advanced user who wants to be billed through Amazon AWS, as before.

The new signup model makes filicio.us much easier to use, and we’re still the cheapest choice around:

Download/GB: $0.25

Upload/GB: $0.50

Storage/GB/month: $0.20

This basically means that you pay-as-you-go just as with Amazon. This makes for a much more flexible choice than other storage services around since users won’t need to choose between three uncomfortable pricing packages. You pay for usage and that’s it!

To make sure that new users know what they’re paying for they’ll get a sign-up bonus of $0.15 when they start out. This roughly corresponds to 60MB of free storage for year.

(By the way, this introduction marks the beginning of a quite a few changes in the upcoming weeks and months. Hopefully, this will make filicio.us a very attrative option for backup, storage and file sharing.)

Putting a podcast online is a simple matter of uploading the audio file to filicio.us and then, possibly, tagging it. That’s it. And remember that you can upload multiple files at once and editing while the upload is finishing. Just in case that seems hard, we’ve put together a short guide on How To Podcast With Filicio.us.

• http://filicio.us/rss/demo/ (most recent public files published by demo)
• http://filicio.us/rss/demo/podcast (most recent public files published by demo tagged podcast)
• http://filicio.us/torrentrss/demo (most recent public files published by demo, but for BitTorrent applications)

This is the easy way of getting the standard rss feeds. In fact, the feeds has been added as a part of the filicio.us API, which means than any API request with format=rss specified will be returned as RSS. A few examples:

• http://filicio.us/get-files?format=rss&username=demo&password=demo&limit=100&orderby=creation_date&order=desc (Get all the 100 most recent files — private and public — uploaded by demo)
• http://filicio.us/get-files?format=rss&username=demo&mode=search&search=superman (Get a list of demo’s public files where either the filename or the description includes the string “superman”)

(And yes, I realize that it’s time to actually write some API documentation. This thing has grown out of the sparse blog doc.)

This means that you can now:

• http://filicio.us/get-files?username=demo&password=demo (get demo’s private and public files)
• http://filicio.us/get-files?username=steffentchr&mode=tag&tag=ip&tag=egnenoter&tagmode=or (list all of my files tagged either ip or egnenoter)
• http://filicio.us/get-files?username=steffentchr&mode=tag&tag=ip&tag=egnenoter&tagmode=and (list all of my files tagged ip and egnenoter)
• http://filicio.us/get-files?username=demo&mode=tag&tag=first&tag=second&password=demo (list all demo’s files — private and public — tagged either first or second)

Another very important part of the whole Web 2.0 universe is sparse documentation, so we’ll simply explain the api with a few links to my public files:

• http://filicio.us/get-files?username=steffentchr
• http://filicio.us/get-files?username=steffentchr&mode=user_recent (30 most recent files)
• http://filicio.us/get-files?username=steffentchr&mode=untagged
• http://filicio.us/get-files?username=steffentchr&mode=tag&tag=metode

(There’s probably more to come, but this should illustrate the basics…)

For demonstration purposes, look at http://filicio.us/steffentchr or http://filicio.us/demo.

• Support filenames language specific chars, such as Danish ÆØÅ.
• Newly uploaded files should show up at the top of the list.
• Fix the multiple-upload-tags-Flash problem.
• Search filenames and file descriptions.
• Form-based upload for those without Flash 8.
• Allow others to browse your public files through http://filicio.us/username.
• RSS feeds of public files tagged mytag at http://filicio.us/rss/username/mytag & http://filicio.us/rss/mytag.
• Add RSS links within the UI.
• Sorting listings by filename, creation date, …
• Select more than one tag at a time.
• Batch operations: Private/Public, Delete, Tag, … (I’m thinking drag-n-drop for this one)
• Keyboard shortcuts for navigation.
• Setting the timeout of signed links.
• Upload directly to Amazon S3, rather than through filicio.us.
• Guide to signup at Amazon S3, and a few cases on how to use filicio.us. (Case suggestions: podcasting, note sharing, keeping state secrets accessible…?)
• Plain html version for mobiles and non-Ajax devices/browsers.
• Syncing buckets with S3, so every object in a bucket is present in out systems.
• Shared buckets amongst users? More buckets for one account?

Any requests? Add a comment…

This is the exact gap that filicio.us is designed to fix. filicio.us is a simple file storage service built using Amazon S3. You can register for an account with S3, and then use our service for uploading your files, organizing them using tags and sharing them with others. In essence , we’re providing a thin shell between you and S3 — and ajax superpowered one at that — which allows you to actually use S3 for your own purpose.

Now, if you want to know more, have a look at our nice About filicio.us document (this document also details how you can try out the service without signing up). Or if you can’t wait to get started, go to filicio.us and create a free account.