For those of you who haven’t heard of eSnips, it is part-MySpace, part-YouTube, part-Gmail storage. According to the website, eSnips is a “social content-sharing site, where you can publish and share any media type with practically unlimited flexibility in choosing what you want to share, and with whom, in 5GB of free space.” It also happens to be an Israeli startup that is based in Ein Sarid.

When I was first researching online web companies in Israel a few weeks ago, I came across eSnips several times. I decided to check out the website and have since been using the website the same way I have used MySpace in the past — to listen to audio clips from different bands.

The website was founded by Israeli startup veteran, Yael Elish, in 2005 using what the website calls, “award-winning technology that it developed for its Net Snippets products, which are used by tens of thousands of professional business and academic researchers.” It originally competed against storage websites, such as Omnidrive and 4shared but in addition to expanding its storage amount to 5GB, eSnips has become more music- and marketplace- focused, putting it in competition with 25GB media storage power-house, MediaMax and MySpace.

While one blogger, is hailing eSnips as an educational tool that students can use for research and collaboration purposes, it seems to me, a new user for the music, that eSnips’ business plan will probably continue to include music as a central component in the future.

For more information on eSnips and where it is going, here are some links to a few interviews and articles:

TechCrunch checks out eSnips
eSnips Blog
Interview with eSnips CEO and founder, Yael Elish
Mashable: eSnips music widgets for MySpace
Video Interview with CEO and founder, Yael Elish
Other storage websites
eSnips microportals mean business