Karl Freeman

Having just received in invite to Insync from what I can only assume being the Web Work Daily Post a couple days back I’m very impressed so far with Insync. Being that file synchronisation is a crowded marketplace with Dropbox clearly being the main contender and Microsoft’s Live Mesh trying to do the best it can, Its nice to see another company taking the approach of solving file synchronisation from a business angle.

Being quite a Dropbox fan I must admit its going to be a tough one to contend with, but I feel some of the raw concepts Insync is offering and the way its set out has already got a great contending idea. Dropbox when it first came out early 2008 set its goals to be a personal synchronisation service for professionals with multiple computers and without criticism it has done this very very well. As a side feature Dropbox introduced the idea of shared folders, where users could share a folder with another Dropbox user, therefore one folder in both Dropbox user accounts would show both peoples changes. This has been a fantastic utility for Dropbox users and has spawned many hacks for synchronising various other Settings, Passwords, Profiles Etc…

The one problem Dropbox has had with the idea of sharing files is that it has always been an afterthought particularly for large teams or even Noded teams. Dropbox has always been about individual file synchronisation whereas Insync is solving the problem of team based file synchronisation by letting companies signup co-workers to the whole folder, which means you don’t need someone to have a an existing account to join in and share files.

With a generous 5 gig limit for free accounts I would highly recommend you sign yourself up for an invite sooner rather than later. If your a small business looking to give your co-workers an easy way to send files to each other I would jump aboard this because I can see this being just as popular if not as popular as Dropbox is for personal use ( email beta [at] insynchq dot com for an invite )

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