I noticed an article in this morning’s Australian Financial Review about Dropbox being ‘the new Facebook’.
Looks like paying to have a local file server will come to be seen as one of those quirks of history.
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Sharing Files with DropBox
April 23rd, 2009 by Glenn
We’ve been using DropBox for shared folders for a while now. This is a simple and very effective service.
It works like this:
- sign up for DropBox (a 2Gb account is free) – if you refer others (as I am doing with my referral link above) you can get your free allocation up to 3Gb
- your DropBox folder is created on your Mac/Windows computer
- drop folders / files you want to share into your DropBox
- invite people to share one or more of your folders
- once they have accepted the invite, the contents of your DropBox folders appear on their Mac/Windows computer as well. Change a file on either side and it syncs to the other.
You can have a team of people sharing a folder.
Very simple, very effective and reliable. 2Gb of shared folders is free, after that you can upgrade to 50Gb for $9.99 USD/mth
The DropBox service is built on the Amazon S3 platform. I expect to see a lot more of this kind of service, as Amazon have done a great job with their infrastructure services.
