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Those of us who work in the web industry know that it can be frustrating to move really big files around the web. Most email hosts place really low limits on the size of an email file that you can send.

While YouTube has certainly made it easier to share videos, it also has limitations (not the least of which is that it only handles movies).

Today, I was looking around the web to find the best ways to send large files to other people without requiring that both ends download and install a certain software. Web based systems (or as the technically savvy call it – The Cloud) tend to be the simplest, most effective ways to handle file sharing. While searching I came across this list of 13 different services to move big files around the web.

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I spend most of my days promoting content in social media like Digg and Reddit. That’s because they are very controlled environments, and getting noticed on those sites is fairly straightfoward and scientific.

However, I’d trade social media for Big Media any day. For example, yesterday one of our sites got onto Digg’s front page and got mentioned in a Fox news article. Two different articles. In my view the one that got on Digg’s front page was much better and more interesting.

But, the article that got on Fox News ended up sending more traffic.

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One of my favorite blogs that we run here at SeaWaves is called One Big Health Nut. From the summer of 2007 to the summer of 2008 it was updated daily with really interesting health facts.

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A SeaWaves website called The Common Sense Investor has been sitting idle for well over 2 years.

The site does not get very much traffic at this point. However, we are in the process of resuscitating it with the hopes of getting traffic up below the 100k Alexa range.

What are our challenges?

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