Sharpcast Photos Helps You Sync & Share
Sharpcast wants to make photo sharing and sycning easier. Unlike Flickr, which exists soley as a website (though one with awesome features), Sharpcast Photos has a website, a desktop application, and optionally syncs photos to mobile devices. Flickr users can use an uploader tool to drag and drop photos to be uploaded to Flickr.com. Similarly, Sharpcast users can drap and drop photos into the desktop app; by using this app or by uploading picutres online, and the photos will be synced to your mobile, your computer, and online. To share an album with a friend, you just drag the album to your buddy list. The beauty of Sharpcast is the mobile syncing - something no one has done this smoothly before. Still, until I need my 100 pictures of Sophie on my cell, I’m sticking with Flickr for now.
In the future Sharpcast plans on releasing products that will sync calendars, contacts, and documents just like it’s currently doing with photos — now that may interest me. Especially if they could tie it in with my Google Desktop tool that let’s me search across all the computers I own…because god knows where I saved that file. Sharpcast is Windows-only at the moment and is in "alpha." (Flickr is in gamma!)
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Sarah,
I would encourage you to still check Sharpcast out. The experience of your desktop and web being in sync in real-time (uploads are obviously 1-way), or having the same view of your pics regardless of whether you are online or offline or a whole host of other things that the Sharpcast platform enables, is very experiential. While I love Flickr as well for any public photos I have, Sharpcast really is different in that it enables a great way to have semi-private sharing and collaboration with just my friends and family.
What you see today is just a tip of the iceberg and the product will not grow up to its potential unless you give us feedback to make it better.
Thanks for keeping tabs on us!
Cheers,
Gibu Thomas, CEO, Sharpcast.