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Monday Mar 09, 2009

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  • What does "streaming" mean in drop.io World?


    With the drop.io Real Time set of features, we've created a fully-live collaboration environment.
    This means zero page refreshes. Zero...seriously.


    Our new /Chat dedicated view:  just as each drop has a '/Blog' view (where media added to the drop is displayed according to when it is uploaded), a '/Media' view, etc.  we also now provide a rich media '/Chat' view.  In this chat view all chat messages and media are displayed 'inline' for easy discussion

    A 'chat layer' on every view:  on the bottom of every page there is also now a 'chat layer', which displays how many others are currently looking at the same drop.  Click on it and you can chat with them about the files you are uploading, a document you need from them, whatever you want.

    The /Chat Mobile view: we have created a browser-based mobile chat view, so that iPhone and G1 users, and others with handsets that support javascript, can not only send live chat messages, but can also receive rich media added to the drop on their device.  All a mobile user needs to do to access this functionality is navigate to http://drop.io/DROPNAME/chat and they are immediately brought into the real-time environment.

    3rd Party Chat support: you can even use 3rd party chat clients (like Adium, Pigdin, iChat, etc) to collaborate on drop.io drops, and with others viewing the drop directly from their browser.

    Still Supports All drop.io 'Inputs':  We're the same drop.io, just faster and more agile. This new level of functionality maintains full support  across all of drop.io's 'inputs'.  If you email a file to your drop, it appears on-the-fly.  If you call in voicemail to the drop's dedicated number, the MP3 manifests instantly.  Using our popular drag and drop.io firefox plugin you can drag files off your desktop for realtime sharing.  It even works with API applications built by others, like the iphone app 'Droppler' and the windows desktop app Affixa.

    Still Supports All drop.io 'Outputs': Like with the ways you can get your content and ideas up on drop.io, all of the ways to get this content out to your friends, workgroup or the world-at-large are still supported and just as easy to use. Email out your images or documents, send out a fax (premium-only) and update your Facebook or Twitter feed. Go crazy.

    So, we've tried again to make drop.io a better, more feature rich space to collaborate and share your content, easily and privately. We hope you like what we've put together and where we're going. We also hope you'd tell us what you think, what works, what could be better, etc. E-mail us at contact+streaming@dropio.com and let us know.

    Also, check out our STREAMING HOW-TO VIDEO!


    -Team drop.io
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