Qnext This file sharing revolution will not be televised
The evolution of file
sharingWe all have files that we want to share with our friends –
photos, videos, movies and documents.
Back in the early days of computing, if you had something to share, you
had to physically copy the file to a floppy drive, carry it over to your
friends computer and then copy it over to his hard drive. This meant you had to physically transfer the
files. By the way, todays modern
equivalent of the floppy is the USB stick.With the advent of
email, sharing became a lot easier – all you had to do was attach the file to
an email and hit send. The problem with
email was that you could not send big files such as high resolution photos, or
videos or large PowerPoint presentations.
The solution people use today is to copy it over to a public cloud
service such as Dropbox, Google Drive or SkyDrive.
The push approachUp until now, your go-to-solution of sharing files has been
the same old industry standard push approach.
What I mean is that you pushed your content by email or you pushed
it to a USB device or you pushed it to a public cloud service.But what about when the files are really large, like sharing
a movie – or what about highly sensitive information that you are not
comfortable putting in the cloud – or what if you have lots to share – you will
run out public storage space pretty quickly and adding more can cost a pretty
penny.The problem is that whenever you push something that you
want to share – you face file size limitations, storage capacity limitations
and slow upload speeds. Plus there are security issues and cost issues.Why not pull files
from their original locationsThe next wave in file sharing flips the paradigm on its
head. Instead of pushing a file to a
USB or to the public cloud, why not keep the files and their original locations
and access or pull them out at your convenience. Those files might be on your PC, your laptop,
your tablet or smartphone. The files
might be on a smart router or a network attached storage device. Or the files might be in Dropbox, Google
Drive or SkyDrive. It shouldnt matter.When you share files from their current locations, you dont
have problems with file size limits, or storage capacity limitations, or
uploads or compression degradation.
Security is handled by an encrypted transfer directly from where they
are stored to you without going through a middleman.Qnext – the game
changerThere is a new app for file
sharing that doesnt use the traditional push approach – it is called Qnext.
It has just been introduced as a free app for Facebook. It runs within Facebook to allow you to share
photos, videos and files with your Facebook friends. Since nothing you share is uploaded to
Facebook, the files do not become Facebook property – they belong to you. Also, this app becomes a gateway to your
files no matter where they are stored – on your computer, tablet, phone, NAS
drive or smart router or Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Box or Ubuntu account.To get Qnext for Facebook free, go to https://apps.facebook.com/qnextshare/.#FileSharing #Qnext #FacebookFileSharing #Facebook #FreeFileSharing
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