File-sharing service Drop.io jumps into the streaming game, adds chat
It's all about things happening in real-time these days. Facebook just announced its new streaming newsfeeds, and Twitter is the media's darling. It only makes sense for other services to get in on the act while the getting's good. One such company is Drop.io, a provider of online collaboration tools, which today announced that it will begin updating materials uploaded by users in real time.
So, let's say a group is working on a project that includes several documents. To centralize them, one of the team members uploads them all onto Drop.io, which buckets them together on one site - called a ‘drop' - that can be password protected. That way, any member of the group can reorganize the files (with drag-and-drop functionality), or snag one off the web, update it and reload it with changes. This goes for images, audio files and videos too. The difference now is that these changes will be reflected the instant the file is uploaded, even if another team member has the older version open, no page refreshing required.
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