drop.io Gets Streaming and Realtime Media

The excellent web service drop.io has recently received the most significant added feature upgrade since its launch. From their announcement:

drop.io is now fully realtime enabled. this means realtime rich-media streaming collaboration and chat like never before. in one click set up a drop, invite participants, and seamlessly exchange any media on the fly. With full mobile and third party client support, drop.io is the simplest way to collaborate with exactly whom you want how you want.

Check out the launch site, or get more details. There is also a screencast.

Last week drop.io launched playlist.io, which allows you to stream music (or sermons, or lectures) to whoever you want.

Just a quick note that we just launched a new applet at drop.io called ‘playlist.io’ (http://playlist.io) – it is a dead simple way to post your music to the cloud in 3 clicks, and then stream it basically anywhere you want to play it (home, work, etc) — there is a demo video explaining how to use it at http://drop.io/file/playlistio

using the newly release API base iPhone application ‘droppler’ (http://bit.ly/EmZVc) you can even stream your playlist right to your iphone… there is a bit more at http://drop.io/blog if you are interested.

All in all, drop.io is shaping up to be a very handy way of distributing information. It’s a great place to put sermons, for example, or distribute class or lecture materials (which is one way that I use it). There is also a new app for the iPhone or iPod Touch (http://bit.ly/EmZVc) that integrates with drop.io, which makes all this even more portable!

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