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Interesting development. Dropbox is offering 1 terabyte of space for teams. This is really cool, especially if you're a media company and have to share big files like HD vids. Might try recommending this to my boss. Here's an article from Mashable.

If you have a crowd of people collaborating with large files synchronized by Dropbox, you might be interested in this new offering from the online file synchronization service, called Dropbox for Teams.

It works the same way as the regular Dropbox service, where if you put files into a Dropbox folder on one computer, they immediately begin to synch up on all the other computers where you have the Dropbox application installed. It’s great for backing up files, collaborating, version control — and you can do some cool tricks with it, too.

The difference is, this $795-per-year Dropbox for Teams service gives five users shared use of a terabyte of storage. If you have more than 5 users, get the boss to chip in an additional $125 per year for each, and each one of those users gets 200 more gigabytes of space.

Even though it seems quite expensive at $795 a year, there’s an important distinction here. A conventional Dropbox account is free if you’re not going to use more than 2GB, but if you’re sharing large files as much we do here at Mashable (such as HD video production clips), you’ll be needing a whole lot more than that.

The problem is, each person needs a Dropbox account that’s big enough to accommodate all the files you’ll be synchronizing among your team. So if I have, say, a “Pro 50″ Dropbox account that can accommodate 50GB (that costs $99/year or $9.99 per month), that’s not going to do me much good to collaborate with my pals if all of them can only accommodate 2GB.

More here

Picked up this bit of news over at TechCrunch. This Mills guy really has a knack for business. But i'm skeptical because he says 6 Degrees has just been around for 9 months but they're growing 20% year on year? Is that just an estimate or is he just throwing numbers around? Full article below:

British entrepreneur Alastair Mills, who recently sold his latest venture, SpiriTel, to communications giant Daisy for £37 million, is at it again.

Mills is today debuting his new company, Six Degrees Group, and has announced that private equity firm Penta Capital (who also backed SpiritTel) has agreed to invest £60 million in the business.

Six Degrees Group is launching today with almost 100 staff and already serving over 1,200 business customers.

According to various reports, Mills has acquired four – and soon five – companies to form the foundation of the new group.

Six Degrees Group will deliver managed data services to British businesses. The company says it has already developed a cloud-based voice business continuity and disaster recovery solution (called Livenumber) and that it will be expanding its core network and datacentre assets to improve its reach and capabilities.

Today, the company also announced the opening of its newest datacentre, purpose-built for offering ‘enterprise-grade’ cloud services.

In Mills’ words:

“In January, I sat down with a clean sheet of paper to think about where I should next look to build a business. Cloud-centric convergence is the most exciting growth area in the market so we made that our focus.

Nine months later, we’ve raised £60m in funding, one of the largest fundraises in the sector, and we’ve got nearly 100 people, we’re growing at over 20 percent year-on-year, and we’re solving real business challenges.”

To be continued, no doubt.

Taken from TechCrunch. Original article here.

Zoho recently released their "totally rebuilt" Zoho Show 3.

Some points on the "new" version. 

Visually Appealing 

Nobody likes slide decks full of bullet points. Zoho Show makes it very simple to create great, visually appealing presentations that will help you engage your audience. Adding effects like shadows and reflections to your online elements takes only a couple of clicks. Insert dynamic shapes that you can morph and tweak to fit your particular slide. Enhanced text and image editing gives you more creative control so you can make your slide look exactly how you want. 

Effortless Creation

Some time ago we introduced our MenuTab design in our Zoho Writer service - and it makes it so much easier to get your stuff done. Now we're bringing the MenuTab to Zoho Show. But that's just the start. When you are trying to modify an element, now we present the choices visually and when you make a selection, we'll apply it to the object in real-time, so you don't have to keep guessing how your slide will look like. We've revamped the way we handle masters and layouts - and now you can even choose between several slide sizes to match the medium you'll be presenting on (for example, widescreen projectors, or letter-sized paper). And now, creating flowcharts and diagrams is a breeze with our self-routing connectors.

Deliver Anywhere

One of the primary reasons you create a presentation is for, well, others to see it. Zoho Show makes this very simple. You can, for example, collaborate with other people while creating your presentation. But that's not all. When it comes to actually delivering your presentation, you can do it from your laptop hooked up to a projector, or you can do it over the web. One of the nice things about Zoho Show is that you only need to give a URL to the people you are presenting to, and they'll be able to follow along using just their browser - without having to download anything. Need to go out of your presentation and share the desktop? You can do that too! And of course you can also embed the presentation on your website for others to peruse at their own pace.

Here's a video:

What do you guys think? Will this catch on? Would love to get your thoughts.

First blog post!

Just wanted to share this cool software called Podio. You can basically build your own app using a very user-friendly UI. 

More about Podio (taken from their site).

What is Podio?
Podio is an online work platform with a new take on how everyday work gets done. It gives people more power than they’ve ever had before to do manage their work better, smarter and in their own way. Combining hundreds of specialized and flexible work apps with messaging, tasks, reporting, workflow and contact management, Podio lets you build and shape the online workplace most fitting to your role. It eliminates scattered, unorganized work routines, and replaces multiple products from different companies with a single environment and a single login. Podio is already trusted by thousands of teams, companies and organizations worldwide who use it to facilitate a particular work process or to connect all their work activity.

What makes Podio special?
What really sets Podio apart is how it puts people in control of their work tools rather than the other way around. You decide how to structure your projects, teams and workflows by creating your own spaces and sharing them with relevant people. You also decide how to structure, create and present content and information that’s linked to your work processes and interactions. You do this by choosing from hundreds of Podio’s specialized work apps or creating your own to help you get the job done – whatever it is.

The result is a new way of working – no more bottlenecks, no more blind spots and no more disconnected processes.

Oh and I'm not an employee. Just sharing. Might be relevant to some of the community members' interests.