The death of a plug-in

Earlier this week drop.io announced that it was acquired by Facebook and will be stopping its excellent file sharing and collaboration service.
This in turn has the effect of killing all the great products that were created based on the drop.io platform…including my Photo-drop Lr plug-in for Adobe Lightroom.
What does this mean if you already use the plug-in?

1. You can no longer create new drops
2. You can still upload content to existing drops…but
3. drop.io are deleting all content hosted on their servers on December 15th 2010.

There is nothing I can do about this and will be actively searching for a new solution to replace drop.io in my own workflow.  When I find a replacement I will look at creating a new plug-in for Lightroom.
Please let me know if you have any ideas or thoughts on a suitable service.

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Comments

[parkylondon]

Any chance you could use DropBox to replace Dop.io?

As an aside, I wonder why it all had to go? After all, surely Facebook wouldn't not care about their customers that much would they? Wait, what? Oh...

[ftack]

maybe you can have a look at www.nomadesk.com

[Mark Wilson]

Thanks for the comments.
@parkylondon - I have looked at creating a plug-in for Dropbox in the past. It would do the basic sharing etc but is not as good on the collaboration side. Also, you can do everything you need with Dropbox using Lightroom 3's publish service. I explain how here:

http://blog.rusticolus.co.uk/2009/11/lightroom-3-beta-save-photos-to-cloud.html

@ftack nomadesk does look interesting, - I'll have a play with it.