Digital Home Thoughts: Sharpcast: Data Sharing Made Simple

"Imagine as a consumer the ability to synchronize your photos and contact data across multiple digital platforms in near real-time by making a change on one location and seeing it appear moments later across the others. This is the general idea behind Sharpcast, a Silicon Valley start up whose idea it is to get your data to match-up across the Web, computers and cell phones with as little effort as possible. The Sharpcast service, one of a growing breed of so called Web 2.0 companies, currently offers its service in beta form and only for photos. Sharpcast Photos has thus far been well received by the media, with Walt Mossenberg of the Wall Street Journal calling it a “cool and compelling service that solves a real problem”. Sharpcast CEO Gibu Thomas recently took some time out of his busy schedule to do a phone interview with Digital Trends to talk about his company’s interesting offering."



Sharpcast Photos work by providing automatic synchronization of digital photos across at least two of three platforms – PC, Web, mobile phone. I just tried it out and I must say that it really is quite fast. Has anyone else used this service before? I don't quite know how much to trust their uptime and backup but it is good to know that there is a solution now out there that does this kind of nice synchronization. I like their interface too, simple!