New Drop.io UI

New Drop.io UI, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

Drop.io has announced a new, much more attractive UI (above). However, many of the concerns I had after using the product extensively a few months back remain (see A Deep Dive Into Drop.io). For example, the identity model is weird, and as a result it’s impossible to know who has posted, uploaded, or commented in ‘drops’, which makes it usable but annoying.

The company has included a ‘Plans’ tab in the product UI, that leads to this:

Drop.io Managed Solutions - coming soon!
Bring the benefits of ‘drops’ to your business
Collaborate and share with an unlimited number of colleagues and clients with ‘drops’ that are:

* Simple: Quickly and easily set-up, share, and access any type or size files

* Private: Non-searchable, non-networked, password protected sharing both inside and outside a firewall

* Professional: Customize drops with corporate logos and colors and a gallery-like media presentation

Drop.io’s Managed Solutions bring the power of drops to professionals and organizations with these additional features:

* Management: Organize, administer, and monitor multiple drops from a single interface

* Control: Seamlessly apply customized branding, storage capacity, privacy settings, and more to multiple drops

* $$ Value: Increase employee productivity while decreasing IT costs by reducing email server loads, replacing FTP sites, and minimizing IT support/management - all without any hardware or software to install!

20GB & 25 managed drops = $19.99 / month

$4.99 / month / additional gig

Professional

individuals managing several projects and sharing media

Examples: photographers, musicians, filmmakers, authors, advertising/PR consultants, architects, teachers, recruiters, event planners, researchers.

100GB & 250 managed drops = $99.99 / month

$2.99 / month / additional gig

Business

small and medium businesses with multiple employees

Examples: media outlets, news agencies, publishing houses, marketing/advertising/public relations firms, recruiters, retailers, consultants.

Contact us at enterprise@dropio.com

Enterprise

organizations that require a customized solution

Contact us for a custom solution designed for your organization at: enterprise@dropio.com or 646-201-9659

We’ll see how that plays out.