Online Sharing Madness

By Georgia - on Tue Sep 25 2012 - share this article facebooktwitteremail+1

If you use the web, it's almost garunteed that you've used an online file sharing platform, at least once. Drop box has turned into the "google" of online file sharing, but why? Because it was the first one that people heard of or because it really is the best? Who knows!? Well, we're going to find out....

Let's look at the top 4 online file sharing platforms and decifer for ourselves.

1. Let's start with the big dog. Drop Box.
There is certainly no question if it's popular (50 million users)! To get Drop Box you must have an account but once you get going, it's free. 
bka loves Drop Box because.....

Key features:

• Upload photos, videos, and documents
• Access from your mobile phone
• Gain more space when you invite friends
• Work on or offline
• Deleted or edited files can be retrieved
• Works as a massive back up database
  
  Check it out yourself.

2. Jumpshare is a start up file sharing platform that we like!
Easy peasy leomon squeezy! No account needed for this one and what you see is what you get. Files only save for two weeks and you can only upload up to 2BG but it is free and quick to get going!

Key Features:

• No account needed to start sharing
• Free to use
• No limit on how much you can share
• Easy to join
• Drag and drop makes it easy to share

Jumpshare is here!

3. We Transfer is slick. It's sexy and simple, what more could you want?!  You can upload instantly which is always a plus and it's free. With the 'claim your own channel' option, you can pay a little cash money and customise your background.

Key features:

• Beautiful design (which we love)
• Tasteful advertising throughout (business minds)
• icon based
• Great for sharing digital files
• Large file uploader

Find the beauty here....

4. Google drive. Now, how does one compete with Google!? It's free (of course) but you do need to download the program first but then you can access your 'drive' when you are signed in to your gmail. You can also still use your Google docs in colloboration with your Drive. 
bka loves Google Drive because all employees have gmail accounts, we store our daily resourcing here and can easily bring it up in meetings on anyones account. We also love it because it's easy to check once you're logged into your Google account- the less login details to remember, the better.

Key Features:

• Store 5 Gb of stuff for free
• $2.49 to upgrade to 25 GB
• Linked into your Google account
• Accessable on your smart phone, tablet, and computer

Drive into here

So, what has it come down to people? It's all free until you want an upgrade, Google and Drop Box are dominating, We Transfer is awesomely sexy, great for upload big files and Jumpshare offers quick uploads and is rapidly growing. Truth is, all of these file sharing platforms offer different things and are best utilised in specific situations.

So there you go, use your rescources and you can always get what you want.

With love, bka.

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