Foldershare is a peer-to-peer files syncing solution. It can keep your My Pictures folder staying in sync between multiple PCs as long as both devices are online and connected. To find out how Sharpcast is different

- Think about the difference if Picasa stayed in sync across multiple machines and the web

- and you had the full-functionality in offline mode and the changes were automatically synced

- and your entire workspace (not just files, your captions, album structure, buddy list) was automatically backed up and the only thing you needed to migrate to a new PC is install the software on a new PC and login

- and changes you made on the web automatically synced back to all your machines

- and you had a powerful ‘push’ synchronization experience on your mobile a la a Blackberry

- and if this experience wasn’t limited to Photos or Sharpcast provided applications, but could be extensible to other data types and existing applications.

There is more, but hopefully you get the idea. The easiest way to validate this all of course would be to try out our free beta of our first product, Sharpcast Photos at http://www.sharpcast.com. It is still a work in progress obviously, but you will understand what I am talking about. There are also more products coming down the pike.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Gibu Thomas
CEO, Sharpcast

Looking forward to the product release,

One more option is to create a mini-browser , whereby the user can view small thumbnails of his photos and request the one he wants to view by clicking on it , this is also not synchronization , and will definitely require unlimited GPRS plan , in which the operators in my country doesnt offer:(

With regards to the word synchronization , i think the word ” sharing ” is not bad.

any way thanks for replying and have a nice trip.

my flight is about to take off and i have toothpaste and deodorant to get rid off, so bye.

gibu

You raise a great point and hits the heart of the issue of why it is over-simplification to call what we do synchronization.

On a mobile phone, we keep the meta data in sync. So, the list of albums, number of images in each album, etc. When you click on an album, the application requests the server to send down a transcoded image big just enough to fit the screen resolution (in the future, you will be able to set favorites to lock something down in cache), so it is really fast compared to a web browser, where you’d have to type in a URL on a tiny cell phone key pad, navigate to the right album, and download the whole file. If you take a picture on your camera phone, the full file is of course synced to the server.

There are a lot of other nifty things we have done to overcome the limitations of the small devices, but as a user, all this is completely transparent to you. To you, you have access to your full workspace everywhere regardless of what device you are on and whether you are online or offline, and you pick up where you left off.

It is still in alpha, but if you have Win Mobile phone today, you can try it out. Thanks for your insightful comment.

Noah, thanks for your kind sentiments. I always say that a startup is the triumph of passion over reason, so yes, I do care

Cheers,

Gibu

as you know mobiles has small storage and if i have 1000 photos on my desktop , and you synced it to my mobile i will start having issues , mobile storage will full , it will become slow , etc.

How about option for deciding if this photo should be synced to my mobile or just desktops?

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We’ll get beyond photos soon, and in a way that we feel pretty sure will delight folks like you. In our first phase (a.k.a. the ‘living in a cave’ phase, when no one knew who we were), we were completely focused on getting the core technology to work and that phase lasted over 2 years, so we are finally at a point where we can showcase the fruits of our cave living. Over the last 8-9 months, we have been busy deploying the core technology in the context of the photo application as well as extending it to other data types.

We are just scratching the surface, so please be patient with us. We are completely committed to doing this right. Before the year is out, you should see us extending support to other platforms and data types as well as web-enabling and mobilizing existing applications to create an experience that was heretofore unavailable to the average consumer.

Cheers,

Gibu Thomas
CEO, Sharpcast

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