Drop.io as a Simple Online Storage Solution
24 Mar
This afternoon I was looking for an easy way for my sister and I to share photos. It’s always a pain to try to email a set of pictures because email clients can only handle so much data in a single message. Sites like Flickr and Facebook are great for photo albums, but sometimes you don’t want to make everything public.
I’ve become a pretty big fan of Dropbox as I’ve used it to collaborate on a new e-book and to sync files easily between my computer at home and at work. I’ve also used Box.net in the past on school projects, and I know they’ve improved the product quite a bit with tons of 3rd party integration. However, I didn’t want my sister to have to sign-in with my username and password or have to download an application on her computer. I just wanted to send her a URL and allow her to click on an “Add File” button so she could upload the photos.
Enter Drop.io. It fit the criteria of exactly what I was looking for. It’s drop-dead simple. All you really have to do is click on the “Create a Drop” button and without any kind of sign-up or download you have your URL that anyone can access to upload or download files. You can create a custom URL like Drop.io/onlinemarketing or you can leave it at the random letters that Drop.io generates. Then I simple sent the URL to my sister in an email and all she has to do is click on the “Add a File” button to upload all of her images straight from her computer.
If you run into the problem of trying to send files back and forth with a friend or even a group of people keep Drop.io in mind because it might make things a lot easier.
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