The end of email attachments isn’t a service, it’s better collaboration tools
Docstoc has released a tool to let you send files (but not any file) from your desktop to their file transfer service and include a link in an email—Docstoc OneClick: Email Large Documents Without Attaching Files. The cool thing, I will say, is that you don’t have to wait for the upload to complete before you send it.
Mashable has their review (and hence the title of this post)—Docstoc Kills Email Attachments with New Desktop Utility—and I think it misses a couple key things.
First, and maybe this is just me, but pushing a file up to a service, then emailing a link, just gives me the willies. Yes, I know, web-based collaboration tools do the same thing, but something just sounds hinky about this.
Second, While you can make a file “private”, will it self-destruct after a period of time? I also don’t like that you can send it as public. This could be a very nasty mistake to make. I’d like to be able is disable the send as public option all together. Just don’t let me do it.
The problem with attaching files, now that uber bandwidth is the rule and not exception, is that you get many versions of the same document floating around. It isn’t the transferring the file itself that is, usually, the issue.
I’m still waiting for the ultimate collaboration system.
I’m still emailing attachments, or sending through Skype if I’m really concerned about security, if only because it is brutally hard to get people to use a system. No matter how sexy it is, it just breaks their routine too much.
Hmm, now if Xobni or ClearContext could make one of their add ons more attachment savvy, something to coordinate or consolidate. Maybe something hooked into a service (I miss Groove for this) that worked through Outlook and made the whole process to sharing through email more like, well sharing through email.
That could be a good thing.
Until then, I’m going to give Docstoc a pass.
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