File Sharing

Show where you share!

GeekChart - Provides you with an interesting way of showing where you share stuff online. It generates an embeddable pie chart showing the last 30 days of your activity on the popular social sites where you have an account. Each site is presented as a slice on the pie chart along with the overall percentage. Generated pie chart can be easily embedded on your site, blog or personal webpage. Read more: GeekChart: Show Where You Share Stuff Online

Five sites to share files - without registration

Sharing or sending files via eMail is very inconvenient. First of all some files are simply too big to be eMailed. Secondly, when the recipient downloads mail they cannot control when to download the file and for the time it takes until the eMail is transferred they are stuck. And last but not least, someone downloading mail at work may find that some file types are blocked by default, thus they may never even receive the file.

• File Savr
• File Dropper
• RapidShare
• Share1T
• Wikkisend

Documents Hosting

6 sites to share Docs

Document sharing sites are really helpful for large organizations, schools and universities; even small business organizations can represent their clients using these services.

You can read the submission from millions of users and most of the sites support various document formats such that users can view the documents directly within the browser.

Here are a few of the best online documents sharing sites worth checking out.

Docshare - You Tube for Documents?

DocShare - Document sharing community that enables everyone to easily find and share documents online. It’s pretty much like YouTube for documents, you can search the documents by entering the title or browse through the categories. You can also go for the most popular, most viewed and the most discussed ones. Read more: DocShare: Find And Share Documents Easily

Doc Cash - Upload Doc for cash?

If we told you that you could make money just by uploading your documents to the Web, you’d think we were off our rockers. And we’d agree. But, it turns out that such a thing does exist, and the only catch is that your documents have to generate ad clicks.

More on DocCash

I’ve been reading some online coverage about this new way to earn money online just by uploading documents called DocCash.  So, I decided to check it out and found out that its a program launched by Docstoc - a document sharing site similar to Scribd.  And DocCash is using Google AdSense revenue sharing scheme to let you earn from the documents you upload on Docstoc.Being a Google AdSense revenue sharing scheme, you take away 50% of the AdSense earnings derived from your uploaded documents. So, the more quality documents you upload and the more you promote those contents, the more earnings you’d hopefully get from AdSense.

Buy documents on Scribd

Online document sharing site Scribd has launched Scribd Store; a marketplace where publishers can sell original written works. This move comes at a time when ebook piracy is said to be at its peak (Scribd, as one of the biggest document sharing sites out there, is often mentioned in these reports), and is therefore a welcome move both for Scribd, which is trying to clean up its name, and for publishers such as Lonely Planet, O’Reilly Media, Berrett-Koehler and others, which partnered with Scribd for the Store launch.

The Store works as follows: prices range from $1 to $5,000 (for a China market research report) or more, and Scribd keeps 20% of revenue to itself, while 80% goes to the publisher. Scribd also offers automated pricing, setting a price tag based on the prices of similar items in the Scribd Store. The pricing is very flexible; as a publisher, you can set a price on individual chapters, exact selection of pages, or you can serialize your book for one dollar per chapter. Scribd aims for a multi-platform approach; the users will be able to read the documents they’ve bought on the Kindle, iPhone (coming soon) and other gadgets.

Scribd gets social

Scribd has quietly become one of the world’s most popular websites. The service lets you share documents, presentations, and PDFs online; its embedding feature alone has revolutionized how documents are used and shared. Still, many pieces of Scribd have been a silo; many users search for a document (often finding it via Google), download it, and leave. So how do you keep users engaged with your product? By launching a new wave of social features, of course. That’s exactly what Scribd has done. The website now sports an array of social features designed to improve user engagement, build community, and get people to come back. This includes the addition of a homepage feed, the ability to follow other users, a new profile news feed, reading lists, status updates, and more.

Notes and snippets

Free web services to help you save content online

Saving content online is a great way for Bloggers to make sure that they don’t miss on anything important. There are services that allows you to clip a specific part of the text or copy and paste images or videos and save them all in one place. You can use the following web services that allows you to do so without installing any third part software.

Image Hosting

Scrnshots

ScrnShots is the best way to take, find, and share screenshots of web and screen based design. Easy to upload, and makes good use of tags to search. Unlimited screenshot storage. Like Flickr you can link and embed the screenshots. Works well with something like Fireshot (for Firefox)

Storage

Online Hard drive for storing Online files

Cloverr is a free web service that acts as an online hard drive for storing files from all over the internet. Instead of uploading files from your local hard drive it lets you save online files such as Flickr photos, YouTube videos, Google Maps… etc.

Introduction to ADrive

I’ve started using a number of different cloud-storage options to keep my files safe, available from everywhere, and easily accessible for myself and others. I’ve used, and liked, Dropbox, as well as a few others.

My personal favorite, though, has got to be ADrive, a service I only just recently found out about. Its first huge draw, if nothing else, is the massive amount of storage it offers – 50GB is nothing to sneeze at. There are paid versions that offer even more, up to 1TB, but I can’t imagine ever needing more than 50GB to keep my critical documents backed up.

Skydrive

The Microsoft Skydrive is just one of the offerings through Windows Live. You get 5GB of free online storage. Not quite as easy to use as Humyo though but its easy to share files openly there.

Humyo

Clever and generous on line storage site. Free service offers 10GB storage which is geared up for MPS and media files with its easy to use interface. The paid for service offers a massive 100GB

Music Hosting and Storage

Tunesbag

tunesBag is a free online audio library where you can store your music, create playlists and share with friends and other users.

Unlike other services tunesBag currently puts no definite limit on how much you can upload. However, they expect fair use, and should you intend to upload more than 5 to 7 GB, you will want to get in touch with them. Supported files are mp3, m4a, wma, and ogg.