Effective Usage: Get Wuala in your language!

From now on Wuala is available in Polish! A big thank you to Dariusz Mysliwiec, Maciej Szudejko, Zbyszek Trzepizur - we really appreciate your work! Here's a warm welcome to all our Polish users by our Polish translators:
Jesteśmy dumni, że Wuala jest już dostępna w języku polskim.

However, Wuala itself is already available in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish. In order to change the language go to 'Tools' (Win/Linux) or select a different default language for your operating system (Mac).

Stay tuned, more languages will follow.

50 million files on Wuala!

Hooray, more than 50 million files have been stored on Wuala, growing quickly (check on our homepage)! The huge activity on Wuala encourages us that we're on the right track, developing and shipping a product people really use. And together with LaCie, we have great plans and ambitions for the future. Thanks a lot for your support and your confidence.

PS: We're always interested in hearing from you what you use Wuala for and what we could improve. Please send us your feedback.

Developer Zone: Improved NAT traversal for Wuala

Our newest series is called "Developer Zone". This is where we, the developers, have our say. Hope you like it! 

With one of our last versions of Wuala we introduced new methods for NAT traversal. For all the geeks out there, here is a link to the IETF RFC for STUN, the Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Through Network Address Translators (NATs): http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3489.txt. We now support full, restricted, and port-restricted cone NATs. Isn't that great? ;-) 

Well it is. It means that more Wuala users can trade storage without having to configure their NAT.

 

Daily Life: Looking for a new challenge? Wuala is hiring!

Wuala is seeking passionate engineers to join our development team in order to take Wuala to the next level. Are you excited by the idea of shaping the future of cloud storage and to contribute to a product for millions of users? We seek people who like getting things done, working in a dynamic environment and having an immediate impact. Sounds like you? We are actually hiring

1. Senior Software Engineer (Java) 
2. Systems Engineer 
3. Project Lead 

All positions are full-time and based in our office in Zurich. Apply today by email to jobs@wuala.com. 

Effective Usage: Selected Notifications

Did you know that you can now manage your notification settings? Just enable notifications for specific friends or groups. This is how you do it:

1) Go to Tools > Options > Notifications (Win/Linux) or Wuala > Preferences > Notifications (Mac)
2) Click on "Select" after the different options
3) Select your friends or groups you wan to get notified about
4) Click on "Ok"
5) Click on "Save"

From now on, you will get instant updates when your selected friends or groups have new files or comments.

Where's the Wuala Easter Egg?

Ready, set, go - the hunt for the special Wuala Easter Egg has started! Where did the Wuala-Bunny hide it? Start Wuala now, seek the egg and enjoy!

Before you start hunting down that egg, nine little Wuala Bunnies wanted to wish you a Happy Easter!

Red Herring Europe 100 Winner!

Last year we made the finals, but didn't win, this year everything is different! We're proud to announce that we're a winner of the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.

We're not the only Swiss start-up among the winners. With a total of 14 winners, Switzerland is the leading country, followed by Germany, Sweden and Israel. I guess, Switzerland is really emerging to a new tech hub...

Go to our press page or head to the Red Herring website to get more information.

Daily Life: Wuala's Outpost

We have a big office, but no conference room. This means that whenever we want to talk in silence, we go to one of our outposts: The UBS Cafeteria next door or the hallway (see below).



I heard that we're not the only start-up dealing with the this problem...