eSnips -- Online Storage and Social Network
Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 at 10:01 PM by Randall
Web 2.0 is really just another buzzword used by pundits to refer to any fancy-looking web-based application they consider new and cool. Most so-called Web 2.0 applications do not do much for me. Every once in a while, however, one comes along with a new slant on things that looks both interesting and useful. eSnips is one such application. Register for eSnips and you get 1 gig of free storage space. You can store documents, videos, audio, pictures -- just about any file you want. You can also store web links and even snippets of web sites.
So far, eSnips is like any number of other web storage space sites -- with a bit more space than some. However, eSnips lets you tag your files with keywords and share them with other users if you want. If you choose to share a files, you either the entire world or just a select group. While this combination of file storage and social networking may sound weird, it is actually quite useful in practice, both for sharing things with a small group of family and/friends and for making files available to the world at large. It's also fun to search through files by tags and just see what others have found. For example, here is a link to all the files tagged Nature Wallpapers. You'll note that you can even leave comments on tags.
eSnip's Terms of Service forbid copyright-violating material -- and I haven't seen a lot of such material on the system, so what is uploaded in violation of their TOS must get deleted quickly. Porn is also forbidden and I did not come across any (although I did not spend much time looking).
Rating: 4 Stars
Price: Free
Web Site: http://www.esnips.com/