Drop.io - File Sharing, simplified..

I just listened to an interview with the founders of a Web 2.0 application called Drop.io. Sam Lessin and Darshan Somashekar spoke about some of the functions of this application and I just had to check it out.

There are so many ways of moving information around, but none as unique as Drop.io. You can add pretty much any type of file; documents, photos, videos, audio files and make them available to others to download.

They also have integrated voice mail and fax functionality. I could have used this when I was refinancing my new house. I was continually asked to fax stuff to my bank and lawyer. I could have just made the TIFF's available to them via this service. This would also be a great way to share vacation pics and / or have people submit their own to the library creating a family photo archive.

For those of you who are thinking about security, you need not worry. When you sign up, they don't ask for any information so with that, there is no information to share out. All Drop.io knows about you is your email address. No name, phone number etc etc. They also take measures in preventing the site and it's contents from being crawled. That way, contents of your drop won't show up in search engines.

Signing up tool literally 10 seconds as all that is required is a name to identify the location of the content and an administration password. After that, the system configures a URL, email address, even a telephone number and extension where people can leave messages. There is a limit of 100meg for this service unless you pay for the premium package which costs $10 per year and gives you 1GB.