Comments on: Three Free, Offbeat Ways to Handle Files http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/05/05/three-free-offbeat-ways-to-handle-files/ Rebooting the workforce Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Don Bell http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/05/05/three-free-offbeat-ways-to-handle-files/#comment-294648 Don Bell Thu, 08 May 2008 17:52:06 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2292#comment-294648 <p>I just commented on a service for a different article on this site <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/05/07/three-cloud-storage-alternatives/#comment-294646" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p> <p>For the sake of brevity I'll just repost my comments here as they are equally applicable:</p> <p>I’m currently using a startup Cloud storage provider called SMEStorage (www.smestorage.com). They have not officially launched yet but these guys have some cool stuff. Firstly their back-end is Amazon S3 so the storage is secure. Currently you subscribe to their service but they tell me they are soon going to open it up so you can enter your own Amazon S3 keys and pay a $1 a month for their services.</p> <p>You can do all the usual stuff like upload your files, tag etc. They have a nice File Browser. They also allow file sharing via email in which you can set a deadline for the link to the file to expire which is nice. The killer feature for me is the group sharing functionality in which you can create a group, add users to the group and then share a file with the group or individual users - I use this a lot as a mechanism to keep partners up to date with collateral for my business.</p> <p>They released an API a while back so you can access all these features via their REST API, and I’m currently testing the beta of a Firefox plug-in that uses this API.</p> <p>Lastly I’m beta testing their IPhone version which I have to say is pretty amazing. This is at http://thesmespace.com/smeutils/msmestorage/.</p> <p>As far as I know these guys have not launched yet and there is little documentation but they have put a lot thought into what they are doing and I thought they deserved a mention as they are taking the cloud services and layering useful functionality on top of it.</p> I just commented on a service for a different article on this site here.

For the sake of brevity I’ll just repost my comments here as they are equally applicable:

I’m currently using a startup Cloud storage provider called SMEStorage (www.smestorage.com). They have not officially launched yet but these guys have some cool stuff. Firstly their back-end is Amazon S3 so the storage is secure. Currently you subscribe to their service but they tell me they are soon going to open it up so you can enter your own Amazon S3 keys and pay a $1 a month for their services.

You can do all the usual stuff like upload your files, tag etc. They have a nice File Browser. They also allow file sharing via email in which you can set a deadline for the link to the file to expire which is nice. The killer feature for me is the group sharing functionality in which you can create a group, add users to the group and then share a file with the group or individual users – I use this a lot as a mechanism to keep partners up to date with collateral for my business.

They released an API a while back so you can access all these features via their REST API, and I’m currently testing the beta of a Firefox plug-in that uses this API.

Lastly I’m beta testing their IPhone version which I have to say is pretty amazing. This is at http://thesmespace.com/smeutils/msmestorage/.

As far as I know these guys have not launched yet and there is little documentation but they have put a lot thought into what they are doing and I thought they deserved a mention as they are taking the cloud services and layering useful functionality on top of it.

]]> By: Farfield http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/05/05/three-free-offbeat-ways-to-handle-files/#comment-294401 Farfield Tue, 06 May 2008 09:29:03 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2292#comment-294401 <p>Organizing your files on the Mac using tags can be done with <a href="http://www.nudgenudge.eu/punakea" rel="nofollow">Punakea</a>. It will also give you a nice tagcloud from where you can browse your documents.</p> Organizing your files on the Mac using tags can be done with Punakea. It will also give you a nice tagcloud from where you can browse your documents.

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