Bad "Drop" News

If you have been a user of this blog for some time you know that I have used drop.io to provide easy access to various "blog bonus" documents. I set up a second account recently to host relevant ebooks, but it has not been used nearly as much as drop.io/sebaygo1docs1.

It has been a nice, free, easy to use service that guaranteed files would be available for one year from the time of its last download. And it is about to disappear.

Thanks to a heads-up from Sunday's No Agenda, I just saw the following on the Drop.io web site.

Here at drop.io, we’ve had a great three years helping people privately share pictures, video, audio, documents, andmore. It’s been a thrill to watch the first, thousandth, millionth, and ten-millionth drop be created.

Today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve struck a deal with Facebook. What this means is that Facebook has bought most of drop.io’s technology and assets, and Sam Lessin is moving to Facebook.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be winding down the drop.io service. As of this week, people will no longer be able to create new free drops, but you’ll be able to download content from existing drops until Dec. 15. Paid user accounts will still be available through Dec. 15 and paid users will be able to continue using the service normally. After Dec. 15, paid accounts will be discontinued as well.

So, in about six weeks, this blog's document and book drops will be deleted.

We need a good replacement. Suggestions???