Views.fm makes it really easy to use its site as a portfolio, as all you have to do is share a folder full of images, and it takes care of the rest. You can see the Muxtape-inspired audio file interface on the right. Therefore, Views.fm offers unique layouts for each variety of media, be they audio files, audio folders, images, or regular files. Most cloud services cater to one type of media, (like Vimeo for video, Soundcloud for music, Flickr for photos, for example), which is great for final presentation and user consumption, Cieplak said, but not so much for iteration. So, that means you can share a folder with 80 people without having to let each person know that he or she isn’t the only one with whom you’re sharing the file. Views.fm offers you the capability to share your files publicly by giving anyone with the link to the folder the ability to browse and download the shared folder - or privately, in which your folders are only available to those you invite via email.Įnhancing the Dropbox experience, private sharing also enables you to view and edit who has access from your shares list and provides the ability to comment on the folder itself as well as individual files. This makes the file-sharing fast and easy. So, they built Views.fm on the Dropbox API to take advantage of the fact that, if you’re a Dropbox user, your files are already organized in its cloud. In doing so, they’ve become all-too-familiar with the tools available to share media, Cieplak said, especially in a professional setting: “Views.fm is our effort to make that file sharing process suck less”.īoth admit to being regular Dropbox users and big fans, but said that they think the utility is optimized for “dork on dork collaboration” and doesn’t allow for advanced presentation to clients or friends and family. The creators of Views.fm, Gordon Cieplak and Tyler Love, are both designers and engineers (Cieplak is currently the Creative Director at 8tracks and Love is the Senior Developer at Tumblr) and have worked as freelancers and employees at media organizations. ![]() Views.fm allows you to create either public or secure, privately-shared folders that are automatically organized in an easily scan-able thumbnail view. The sharing options are limited, and the utility’s photo display doesn’t really have a great interface, either.Įnter: Views.fm, a viewer that enables quick and elegant presentation of your Dropbox content. ![]() (Admittedly, like every other site out there.) Sharing an entire Dropbox folder, for example, remains difficult unless it’s your Public folder. Though Dropbox is fast becoming a Silicon Valley darling and passed the 4-million-user mark at the end of January 2010, parts of the Dropbox sharing experience are lacking. Part of what makes Dropbox so great is its simplicity - you download the utility, create an account, and you can easily share all of your electronic files in a virtual cloud folder, collaborate with friends and colleagues, and sync between devices and hard drives. At the end of the post, I mentioned the popular cloud storage, sync, and file-sharing startup, Dropbox, as a service I use frequently. In a recent post, I talked about some of the problems that remain in a specific (and familiar) part of the content-sharing sphere: file-sharing. After all, sharing is caring, amirite friends? The rise of the social graph has only brought more attention to the ways we share and with whom we share. Whether it be photos, videos, music, links, code, we share the content we produce and consume all the time. ![]() But there’s more to Dropbox than that: It's a holistic digital workspace that connects you with your content, your colleagues, and all the tools you need to get the job done. Explore Dropbox app extensions to further streamline your online working experience.The Web is a medium for sharing. How do you access the things you need for work when you can’t access your office? With Dropbox, all of your important work files are instantly available anywhere and anytime you need them, enabling you to work remotely. We all faced a major problem when the world shut down. And as businesses and workers prepare their post-pandemic plans, it’s clear that remote work is here to stay. Our work and personal schedules are now easier to juggle, and most of us have celebrated the time saved from not commuting. And yet, we’ve also gained more time with our families, our pets, and our hobbies. We’re all missing casual interactions with friends and colleagues. There’s no denying it, video calls just aren’t the same as meeting in person. ![]() Remote work has its challenges-but plenty of benefits, too.įor most of us, the move to remote work was a necessity-and it hasn’t always been easy.
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