THINKING OUT LOUD (Product Development) CLOUD DRIVES. We’ve been discussing exte

THINKING OUT LOUD (Product Development)

CLOUD DRIVES.

We’ve been discussing external file systems, because some people integrate with Google docs, or Sharepoint. And I’ve considered (my favorite) integrating with Dropbox. But honestly, while it originally made sense, i can’t see the point in it.

I mean, lets say that Facebook allowed file sharing. They can’t because it would turn into a pirate bay. But Oversing is not very different from FB except it’s for business instead of social activity, and it costs money, rather than advertising, and so liability remains with the content originator, and anonymity isn’t possible like it is in social media. Just the opposite. So, if you upload a file of any kind to Oversing, it’s within that business-social network, and you have to be in the network to use it. We do that on purpose. Furthermore, Dropbox is in the amazon cloud and so is oversing. I mean, the only reason we can think of is to separate file system costs. But that’s meter-able anyway.

So the only reason I get to, I guess, is for really large files we will have a problem with our technology, because we would have to provide a background upload manager of some sort.

I can see adding external links, but we do that anyway. I mean, if you’re doing large media gigs, it’s much easier to just mirror your local drive in Dropbox or share on Google Drive and then send links to customers.

So do we implement a max file size and then ask customers to link external files for over that size? That seems like the best option to me.

But I would love advice.