File Sharing Services –Data Storage to the Side

Posted on August 25th, 2006 in: Data Storage, Web Tools

Mike Arrington’s Techcrunch (I went to his party Friday) has a nice write up of a few file sharing companies.

“The old Napster is long gone, but was of course replaced with many other P2P networks. Today, a significant portion of Internet traffic is comprised of files being moved over bittorent, a popular and completely decentralized way of sharing files.”

Being a web guy at data storage company this is more than interesting –I’ve been thinking a lot about the decentralized storage model, and web storage clouds. Online Storage vendors will figure how to link up, share data, and disperse to rich clients (mobile, browser embedded, or to the ol TV) Check out the select four File Sharing Services:

AllPeers (which is about to go public)
Firefox plugin and peer to peer file sharing.

Zapr
Download that looks likes IM. (Google Talk has this feature, so is this product still relevent?) (Edit: Read comments from Mick from Zapr)

Pando
Downloaded App, drag and drop folders via email address

Exaroom
Windows Download that lets users share via their MyDocuments with other users on network

Shooter7
“what friends use for privately sending photos and videos.”
Edit: Thanks Clint for this submission

This also brings to mind Online Data Storage companies. I made a list here on the Data Storage Industry Wiki.

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  • http://zapr.typepad.com/michael Mick

    Hi, Mick from Zapr here. Some quick points about why we’re different from IM.

    1. You can share folders.
    2. You can share multiple files.
    3. (the big one) You share with Zapr links, normal URLs, which last longer than a single share. That means you can put the link on Myspace, a blog, etc.
    Like this;
    http://zapr.net/bobzapr/z/root
    4. The reason why a link is possible, is because Zapr is peer-to-peer AND peer-to-browser. This means that the person viewing or getting the files do not need to have Zapr. It’s like a blog reader doesn’t need the blogging software.

    Hope you can give it a try.

    Cheers,

    Mick

  • http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/ jeremiah_owyang

    Mick

    Thanks, I updated the post to show you’ve answered and provided some responses.

    Great job touching the community

  • http://blog.instantcognition.com/ Clint

    Jeremiah,
    Pando seems, in a lot of ways, like shooter that Xavier Casanova is working on with his crew at Perenety. Not really being into P2P networks or distributed storage networks, how do you think the two are different?

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  • http://zapr.typepad.com/michael Mick

    Hi, Mick from Zapr here. Some quick points about why we're different from IM.

    1. You can share folders.
    2. You can share multiple files.
    3. (the big one) You share with Zapr links, normal URLs, which last longer than a single share. That means you can put the link on Myspace, a blog, etc.
    Like this;
    http://zapr.net/bobzapr/z/root
    4. The reason why a link is possible, is because Zapr is peer-to-peer AND peer-to-browser. This means that the person viewing or getting the files do not need to have Zapr. It's like a blog reader doesn't need the blogging software.

    Hope you can give it a try.

    Cheers,

    Mick