Anybody hear of Dropbox? Check out the video. If you’re interested, PM your email address and I’ll send you an invite.

I have 0 invites left.

Hi Alan, I would be very interested in a beta invite, thanks.

Hiya,

Would also like to be counted in on this if there are any invites left. Thanks for the kind offer. I understand if they are already gone though.

Best wishes,

Mark

Please send me your email address via private message and I’ll send the invites.

PM Sent and thank you very much for the kind offer.

Hope you were directing your post to both of us. If not then no worries on my behalf

Best wishes,

Mark

Yes, I was directing my post to both of you. You both got my last two invites.

Hopefully everyone who got an invite will be willing to share a few of theirs to the EE community. I can’t think of a better community to share them with.

And I can’t think of a nicer person to have shared your last two invites with us. Very very kind of you.

Off to check it out now.

Thanks again!

Best wishes,

Mark

HAd a quick go on it… syncs fine between my 2 main machines. Not really sure the best way to use this, to make best use of it!

I’m just wondering (did post on their forums over there) where the files are being stored exactly. I read on their forums that the files are just being synced but if that is the case then how come I drag a file in and have to wait for it to upload as per there instructions. Is there a possibility that someone might get into my account and therefore my computer without my knowledge. Just wondering if they are perhaps using Amazon S3 as the storage space?

Best wishes,

Mark

Here’s a Techcrunch article about Dropbox.

As to security, I think you should always be careful what you put online. Having said that, I hope we never hear anything bad about Dropbox.

Hi Alan,

Thanks for that link. As I thought Amazon S3! Thought it might be somehow seeing as how they are giving away so much space. Do you think that they will have had to get some kind of license agreement with Amazon to do this though as I know that one of the Amazon dev crew once said on the forums over at AWS that they were not too sure what they would do if someone started using the S3 service as an online backup service offered to users. I guess they would have been in touch first?

Also this does work very very efficiently. Nice to see that the files are first stored on your machine which means that you can re-name them very easily because using the standard S3 service there is no way (that I know of) that you can re-name files without deleting the original first and then re-uploading the new name version of the file, apart from I think it is one of the applications that allows uploads to be sent to the service having their own programmes on the S3 servers to handle this but at a charge of around $1 a month I think.

Seems like a very nice idea but I’m not too sure how safe I feel it to be with regards to security. Obviously your files are being stored somewhere that external people have access to and so I’m not sure I would ever use one of these services for anything that is personal unless I had created the application myself, which of course I just don’t have the knowledge to do!!

Great idea and fantastic implementation though. Will probably use it for non mission-critical files at the moment for transporting between one place and another.

Any ideas on pricing if people want more than 2GB storage space. I see from the document that you linked to that the Techcrunch users got given 5GB instead.

Best wishes,

Mark