Store, stream, and share media anywhere with Put.io
Summary: Put.io is a website that downloads torrents for you.
Put.io is a website that downloads torrents for you.
You are probably asking, "Why do I need a website to download torrents for me when I can just save them on my computer?"
The answer is simple, everything is moving to the cloud, especially media. I want a place where I can see my videos and listen to my music anywhere. You can convert your videos to MP4's and view them on your iPhone too.
You can subscribe to people and content too. I just setup my subscription for CNET's Buzz Out Loud:
They are even working on a Boxee app, which should be pretty cool.
Put.io isn't free, you pay about $10 a month for 50 gigs of storage and bandwidth, and they have plans above and below that.
There have been some free 30-day trials floating around on the web, but I haven't been able to get my hands on one just yet, but please send me a note if you are interested and I can hook you up.
Follow Put.io on Twitter too, for more news and info.
UPDATE: I have 100 trial invites for Put.io if you click this link.
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Let me guess this ....
Umm, no.
Umm, no.
A lot of stuff is available on the cloud, but an amazing amount of stuff is still local to the computer. I do not believe the ratio will eventually be 100% cloud, nor do I believe it should eventually be 100%.
In fact, with HTML 5, a lot of stuff is moving back to being stored on the local computer. Why? Because the local computer is more reliable and faster than the cloud.
It's really quite simple: The closer something is to the CPU, the less latency you will have and the more responsive it will be. No amount of bandwidth will ever fix that, because bandwidth isn't the problem.
In addition, no amount of server reliability will ever fix infrastructure unreliability.
As long as thunderstorms and other natural events are able to knock out infrastructure, it's simply a fact that there will be a demand for devices that run on batteries and do not require access to the internet to function.
99.99% uptime at the server doesn't matter if the connection to your device has 95% uptime.
So no - I do not believe that we're going to see 100% movement to the cloud. It's an absurdity.
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