Drop.io | A File Sharing Program, which is more than just RapidShare
RapidShare is undoubtedly the most popular and old file sharing network today. Other networks include, megaupload, mediafire, megashare, sendafile and lots more. Their business model is based upon revenue generated from Premium Accounts and selling advertisement space. RapidShare has become so popular that there are many RapidShare Search Engines today, which delve deep into RapidShare to bring file URLs to you for download.
But I have just found a file sharing service, with lots of additional features, which make it an ideal service for file sharing.
Welcome to Drop.io.
It is a place, which allows to store and share any files privately, without accounts, personal registration, or an email addresses. These files are fondly called drops and are not ‘searchable’ and not ‘networked’.
It allows you to set various things like a password, whether others can add to the drop, and how long you want it to exist.
The interesting part is that this space can be used as a community space, where others can add, delete or edit the files available there. For instance, this space can be developed as a sort of communal blog, and give anyone the option to add, annotate or upload different files. And there are lots of ways the files can be uploaded onto this space. They can upload usually via Web, or through email, or through FAX or even leave voice mails by calling a dedicated number with an assigned extension.
The interface is neat and clean, and it is fun to use. However I wish that the entire gamut of services available there should be more searchable, because at first glance, it just looks like any other file storing and sharing service. Yet another problem, which I found that it is not possible to associate privacy features to individual files. These settings are attributed to the entire space at one go.
All in all, a nice web tool.
Eugene
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm #
Cool. I’ll try it 100%.
And again, Flash instead of simple input type=”file”
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Alexa
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:45 pm #
Silki, thanks so much for the support. We’re extremely happy to hear
that you support drop.io! We made a release last night with some
interesting new features (i.e. send assets between drops, send files
out via email and MMS, and more…) Additionally, we have some really
exciting updates that we plan to release soon, so stay posted with us
at http://www.drop.io/announcements! Thanks again! Alexa
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Silki Reply:
May 19th, 2008 at 4:49 am
Your welcome
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Jarel
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:10 pm #
There are tons more features on the way. People love what they have as it is and they are just continuing to develop it into a top notch service.
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Madhur Kapoor
April 5th, 2008 at 9:55 am #
I am going to try this one.
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Sam
April 7th, 2008 at 7:43 am #
thanks i´ll give it a try, but Rapidshare is just the topleader in Filesharing
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April 13th, 2009 at 10:30 pm #
you know, 80% of the forum members are using RS for sharing their files. so its hard to cope up with any other file hosting.
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