to Free Web Space
and Web Services.
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CalvinBit's Guide to Free Web Space and Web Services. |
FREE WEB PAGES |
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| Provider Name | Space Provided | Summation | |
| Yahoo! Geocities | 11MB | Part of Yahoo! Having an ID with Yahoo means having an ID ready for GeoCities. Annoying home page naming scheme involving numbers. Owned by Yahoo! | |
| Tripod | TBD | Part of Lycos Network. Annoying pop-up ads. Like everyone else. Annoyingly removes sites after periods of inactivity. | |
| Angelfire |  |
TBD | Part of Lycos Network. See above. |
| FortuneCity |  |
20MB | British! It's the site that hosts this page. But then, I use all of these services. |
| TheGlobe | TBD | Most likely to be taken over by a search/portal site (read: Excite, Go2Net). Very, very low on the Media Metrix Top 500 Sites List. | |
| Virtual Avenue | 20MB | Allows domain names to be _name_.virtualave.com. Painfully difficult to access via FTP. Or any other method. Methinks this something is terribly, terribly wrong. | |
| AcmeCity | 20MB | A Looney Toons-branding of FortuneCity's service. | |
| Xoom | 'Unlimited.' | Sends endless parade of emails advertising (mostly) digital cameras. | |
| Homestead | 12MB | Offers strange-and-slow, but powerful, java-based page manager. | |
| MSN Web Communities | TBD | Still in beta stages as of 990909. This means it will go "live" right around the time Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 24 is released. Your Hotmail account can activate your Web Community account, as part of MSN's Passport Network. | |
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| Your College's Service | Varies. | Some colleges remove sites after student has graduated; others let them linger, and still others allow the graduate to edit and update it off-site. | |
| Your Employer's Service | Varies. Often unlimited. | Proxies and firewalls can prevent your desired community from accessing site. Freedom of content here likely less than with commercial providers. | |
| V3 Redirect | 0MB | Use for its easier-to-remember come.to/_name_ naming/domain forwarding service. Annoys when it doesn't allow you to register more than one domain name for yourself, for various reasons. | |
FREE VIRTUAL HARD DRIVE SPACE |
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| Provider Name | Space Provided | Comments | |
| Yahoo! Briefcase | 10MB | Certainly the pick for inexperienced web users. Convenient pre-set folders | |
| X-Drive | |
25MB | Creates a virtual X: drive in your Windows Network Neighborhood. My current favorite. Easy to use, easy to set-up, and so very available. |
| Visto Briefcase | 10MB? | One of better web office suite sites. | |
| MagicalDesk.com | 5MB (base) | Painful in its unusability. I am currently allowing my membership to expire. Had high hopes for them, too. They were one of the first. | |
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FREE WEB APPLICATIONS |
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| Provider Name | Applications Provided | Comments | |
| When.com | Personal Information Management | Purchased by AOL in its infancy. Best for collecting and saving event appointments - concerts, album or movie releases, et al. Slick interface. | |
| Yahoo! Calendar | Personal Information Management | Your Yahoo! ID is your passport to this scheduling application. Includes to-do list but does not include notepad. Syncs well with both Outlook and Palm schedulers with downloadable True Sync software. | |
| MagicalDesk.com | Personal Information Management | Like its web hard drive application, prone to bugs and unusability. | |
| Visto Briefcase | Personal Information Management | The executive's web calendar. Slicker than When.com, though the color scheme is uglier. Closest to mimicking desktop of local computer. | |
| More to come... | |||
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updated! 990910 | copyright (c) 1999 calvin network |
| this is a calvin network - rocketboy web site. |
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