Hi everyone - this is my first post as an Infodoodadder, and I’m very excited to be in such good company.

I’ve been experimenting with the site Drop.io, a newish file-sharing site that doesn’t require users to set up an account.

Every ‘drop’ is given a unique URL, which users can then share in the old fashioned way, through email, blog posts, etc. If you so desire, you can password protect your post – try going to http://www.drop.io/crashsolo002 for example. Or, you can leave them wide open, as is the case with http://drop.io/crashsolo001

There will be several files at crashsolo001 – another interesting feature! So you can create one URL and post there multiple times, or on a regular basis, thus creating a real easy podcast platform, for example. Feel free to upload something when you get there – you can comment directly, upload documents or images, or record voice messages by using the voice message phone number. Cool!

Also (I’m starting to gush here. Am I gushing? I feel like I’m gushing.) Another feature worth testing is the fax feature – you can fax documents out of drop.io – meaning that if you have a document you want to fax, you can upload it to drop.io, then fax it someplace else. I tried this out with our fax machine, and it worked perfectly. I can see this being a potential workaround for people on library computers, at least at my library – we don’t have a fax machine for public use, but people are always asking for one.

So. Interesting. I can imagine that drop.io will likely attract a large amount of adult content, but because of the way its set up it would not appear to be the kind of thing that users could accidentally stumble upon, like with Scribd or other file-sharing social networks, which allow users to search the site for content. Drop.io seems to be more the kind of tool that enhances other social tools, by giving users a way to place almost any type of content online at a unique URL.

I think there’s more to explore here, but for me it’s already proved itself of interest, if only for the fax and for the phone-in podcasts.