Their interface is much more intuitive, based on some simple principles.

After recording your MP3 from our website we already provide embedded links and direct e-mail of links. The next step is full MP3 enclosures and RSS feeds. We aim to make Daft Doggy the easiest to use Simple Podcasting service on the net. It’s not a replacement for professional podcasting services but it is the easiest way to dip your toes into the world of podcasting.

Cheers

Joe AKA Legless

I hope they decide to open it up so that they aren’t just driving traffic to their site, let it be a way of creating MP3s that live *anywhere* on the net.

And hats off to the BlogTalkRadio guys for giving us the freedom to build a cool app like Twittergram with their service. And I think they’re not quite done yet either.

Facebook, Google, Vimeo, Tumblr & Microsoft, along with drop.io and our company were the presenters!

Drop.io gave a great presentation!

Cheers

However, like I always comment about anything to do with voice, telephony is the ultimate of scale businesses. I’m sure these guys are using a simple Asterisk-based solution so their HW costs are minimal, but they will have variable transport costs that make the economics tough.

It’s exciting times to be in the voice space, and drop.io is the closest I’ve seen to a company that is thinking about voice in the right way. Good luck guys!

Voice sounds like a cool product too, and pushes this further into the 37signals space of project/event management. I can imagine using this interface for keeping track of a small project, up to delivering the final report to the client.

Any plans for International access numbers though?

*In response to your question about yousendit.com and box.net:

I think they are both great tools for the markets and purposes they serve, and they have both built some cool stuff. There are certainly situations when their specific solutions will work better than ours for specific customers with specific needs. I would like to think, and our users might back me up on this, that there are many times when we work better than our competitors for simply and privately sharing groups of files and media among people and groups.

*Is this market now going to be about who can innovate the quickest…voice tool…?

You always need to innovate quickly, but I think the real answer is that the winner is going to be the company that defines their market correctly, diagnoses their customer’s pain points best, and comes up with the most elegant solution for the market and pain points they define. The implicit statement here is that I actually don’t think that we are in/heading for/ the same market as either yousendit or box (though there is certainly customer overlap)

Voice is very much a part of innovating quickly for us, but it isn’t something we are just doing because it is cool or different – voice is central to our mentality about how people create and share ‘bits’ and where we want to take our product. I would point you to http://www.drop.io/voice where I left a message that gets a bit more into this.

*Flash?

Works great for us now. We are working on other solutions to accompany it, but all with maximal focus on ease and simplicity – it isn’t that we are exclusively focused on the sub 100 mb base, it is actually that we are trying to craft perception of what we are and where we are going, being a wholesale massive storage solution is not it, we don’t want to play that game.

*Very long term?

There will certainly be a ‘rationalization’ of THE ‘file-uploader’ market. Without a doubt. And I don’t think any startup is going to win THAT market. There are structural reasons that the big established players will win there.

Again, I would put back to you though, is that we really don’t see ourselves in the ‘file-uploader’ market. Web-based ‘file upload’ is an important commodity piece of the platform we are building. So are email and voice as individual components. Each is an individual piece of the larger equation around ‘simple private exchange’ towards which we are moving.

I have a few questions for you.

How do you feel about the competition such as yousendit and box.net?

Is this market now going to be about who can innovate the quickest, seen as there are many competitors in this segment more or less doing the same thing. Is your voice tool a part of this?

How are you going to deal with the limitation of flash component when it goes past 100 megs? Are you focused on this sub 100 meg customer base?

Very long term, do you think there will be a rationalisation of this file-uploader market?

Drop.io believes that web-space, email addresses, phone numbers, etc. don’t have to all be driven through account based identity-centric models, but can stand apart from personal identity, and that there are many cases where they are MORE useful and flexible that way for sharing and collaboration. In this we are going for creating a very different sort of ‘platform’ from many of those out there.

With drop.io, each ‘drop’ is a floating chunk of web-space which you can add to via the web, email, and phone… Most or all of the others addressing ‘web storage’ tie it to personal account(s) requiring registration. We toss out that system entirely while maintaining privacy options, allowing people to password protect drops if they choose. By doing this we radically simplify the process of sharing and, we think, make it more flexible and useful.

And as for monetization, Ross, we are indeed building tons of more premium features going forward.

For those of you looking for a little distraction at macworld, check out some videos we are starting to release
http://www.drop.io/users

or drop your musings about macworld tomorrow to:

http://drop.io/macworld
macworld@drop.io
646-495-9204 x 61538

http://forum.omnidrive.com/

My problem though is for $10/year, how much goes into security of the actual content?

Also good long-term products have a good monetisation plan. Are they going to offer more premium services in the future.

The only problem though is that I wonder if the utility is all that compelling to develop a massive following.