Thanks to an Instant Message that I received this morning from my friend Luke, I was introduced to a new file sharing service called Tubes.
This new service instantly builds synchronized, secure connections, what they call a “tube” between your desktop and the desktop of your friends, family, co-workers - even your other computers.
With the Tubes software anything you drop in a tube is whisked to the desktop of anyone you choose - and vice versa.
Taken from the official Tubes website:
Tubes is a revolutionary PC+web application designed to let you create instant personal sharing networks of friends, family, classmates, colleagues, or your own devices.
Tubes lets you instantly share photos, music, video and documents with everyone you know and have them share their stuff with you through the same tube.
What’s really cool is Tubes syncs any changes in every tube ensuring you’re always up to date - even when you don’t have an internet connection.
So what do you think? Will Tubes become the wave of the future in file sharing? Could this be the end of Napster, Lime Wire and other peer-to-peer file sharing networks?
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Glad you like it! We think it’s pretty cool too. Thanks for the review Sean - feel free to invite me to any tubes you create. And tell your friends to get Tubes Now - ‘cuz pretty soon we’re going to be making some big changes and all the early folks like you will get extra benefits.
Steve
I’d probably already be doing this, but I’m a little leery of trying it while on dialup, honestly. I mean, unless they’re using some sort of psychic powers for data transfer, at some point bandwidth will be required and, knowing my friends, at least half the things in their Tubes would probably be videos. And as for me uploading things, well… I realize that the On Demand option will help with this somewhat, but then it’ll be the bandwidth equivalent of going into a store with your wallet half empty: “This is looks good, this looks good, this looks awesome, but this is all I can afford.”
And as cool as the idea is, I don’t think it’ll totally replace other p2p options. It seems like more of a middle step between IM file transfers/mailing lists and p2p; Tubes are for getting things from friends and acquaintances while torrents (my current favorite p2p method) are for getting things from the Internet, if you see what I’m saying.
And after typing all that, I think I’m going to go start making Tubes now, just to see what happens…