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Suhit Gupta
05-25-2007, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.tubesnow.com/photosharing/tubeyourmom/' target='_blank'>http://www.tubesnow.com/photosharing/tubeyourmom/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Tubes is a revolutionary PC+web application designed to let you create instant personal sharing networks of friends, family, classmates, colleagues, or your own devices. Tubes lets you instantly share photos, music, video and documents with everyone you know and have them share their stuff with you through the same tube. With online backup and automatic syncing capabilities, Tubes is an effortless way to share, access and experience digital content across all your devices with all your communities. Tubes combines the speed of IM (instant messaging) with the convenience of mobile communication and the reach of email."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/header_download_purple.jpg" /><br /><br />Very cool piece of technology but I think it is going to have issues. You just create a "tube" (imagine a channel) that contains one or more people and you can then drop files into that tube and everyone in that tube/channel gets those files copied to their computer. Imagine your own private network of files all being relayed and synced through this service. Software/content pirates rejoice! I'd bet someone somewhere is going to have a problem with this. I know this is not Kazaa or some other P2P service like that but honestly, that is the kind of thing that comes to mind.

bcre8v2
05-26-2007, 01:45 AM
The thing about social sharing is the "label". It now implies a stigma of almost "me too".

Having stated that, Tubes is almost a perfect tool for sync'ing content (kind of like what Groove is supposed to be) between teams, family, etc.

I am highly recommending this as an EASY alternative for corporate teams to make sure they all get the same materials in exactly the same location on their computers.

Examples:
A non-techie Sales Director can make sure his team has all the latest collateral, business reports, customer info, etc.
Developers have a quasi-sync'ed poor-man's Source or version Control :-)
Product Managers can disseminate the right material to the right folks as well.
Lawyers can collaborate much more effectively (ouch :? )

I, personally, am hoping they add some special features like timestamping, auto-rename (Name-Report-Date-Revision.ext), and maybe even a diff function.

-Steve