Comments on: Dropbox: What MobileMe should have been http://www.paulbutcher.com/2009/11/dropbox-what-mobileme-should-have-been/ Wed, 12 May 2010 14:44:07 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Richard Blue http://www.paulbutcher.com/2009/11/dropbox-what-mobileme-should-have-been/comment-page-1/#comment-3377 Richard Blue Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:24:00 +0000 http://www.paulbutcher.com/?p=690#comment-3377 Paul, Great to find your blog here! Hope you're well. You should also look at JungleDisk. Combines the "sync between machines" capability of dropbox with shared network drive with drive letter support ("N:" in Windows, etc) and hosted automated backup to the cloud like Moxy. I'm really impressed by this. Desktop clients for Win (x32 and x64), Mac and Linux. I'm using Workgroup edition - $4/month per user account, gives user-level control of syncing and folder sharing. Data is stored encrypted on Amazon S3 or at Rackspace's "cloud" (Rackspace now owns JungleDisk). 10 GB of cloud storage included with each account and additional is only $0.15 per GB per month. Dropbox is nice for some applications but JungleDisk gives some really nice additions. I have "Shared Sync Folders" on every team members' machine (PC + Mac, mixed environment) and anyone can update docs in their Shared Sync folder and EVERYONE on the team automatically has a local copy appear in their Shared Sync folder. No grubbing around looking for latest docs. No need to be online even. Paul,

Great to find your blog here! Hope you’re well.

You should also look at JungleDisk. Combines the “sync between machines” capability of dropbox with shared network drive with drive letter support (”N:” in Windows, etc) and hosted automated backup to the cloud like Moxy. I’m really impressed by this.

Desktop clients for Win (x32 and x64), Mac and Linux. I’m using Workgroup edition – $4/month per user account, gives user-level control of syncing and folder sharing.

Data is stored encrypted on Amazon S3 or at Rackspace’s “cloud” (Rackspace now owns JungleDisk). 10 GB of cloud storage included with each account and additional is only $0.15 per GB per month.

Dropbox is nice for some applications but JungleDisk gives some really nice additions. I have “Shared Sync Folders” on every team members’ machine (PC + Mac, mixed environment) and anyone can update docs in their Shared Sync folder and EVERYONE on the team automatically has a local copy appear in their Shared Sync folder. No grubbing around looking for latest docs. No need to be online even.

]]> By: paul http://www.paulbutcher.com/2009/11/dropbox-what-mobileme-should-have-been/comment-page-1/#comment-2526 paul Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:14:58 +0000 http://www.paulbutcher.com/?p=690#comment-2526 Well, I can't speak for how good they are as en employer :-) But the product does seem to work (and has saved me cobbling something together with rsync!). Well, I can’t speak for how good they are as en employer :-) But the product does seem to work (and has saved me cobbling something together with rsync!).

]]> By: Matthew Rudy http://www.paulbutcher.com/2009/11/dropbox-what-mobileme-should-have-been/comment-page-1/#comment-2522 Matthew Rudy Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:36:36 +0000 http://www.paulbutcher.com/?p=690#comment-2522 no way, Zed is at DropBox? I visited their office last year, but it wasn't that exciting. (although they were all still hard at work at 12:30am...) Think I prefer UK start-ups to San Fran... no way,
Zed is at DropBox?

I visited their office last year,
but it wasn’t that exciting.
(although they were all still hard at work at 12:30am…)

Think I prefer UK start-ups to San Fran…

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