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There plenty of ways to share files over the Internet (I like Drop.io or Skype). But when you want to share something with the world, or a larger group of friends, the place to do that increasingly is on Twitter or Facebook. Today a new file-sharing service called Sayabit launched which turns your files into short URLs which can be passed around more easily.

If the file is an image, then the Sayabit link (like http://sayabit.com/LV9llB) takes you to a Webpage where the image is hosted, just like TwitPic. But if it is another kind of file, it just starts downloading right away (this will soon be changed to also first take you to a landing page.)

Already, there is lots of competition among Twitter file-sharing services. (See TwitDoc, FileTwt, Tweetcube). Sayabit, however, also offers password-protected links so that you can control who you are sharing with a little bit better. And it gives you charts and graphs showing you how many times your file has been clicked on.

Sayabit is the first product to come out of Sayagle, a startup in Cambridge, Mass. which is working on a broader product portfolio.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/16-apps-that-make-sharing-large-files-a-snap/

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There plenty of ways to share files over the Internet (I like Drop.io or Skype). But when you want to share something with the world, or a larger group of friends, the place to do that increasingly is on Twitter or Facebook. Today a new file-sharing service called Sayabit launched which turns your files into short URLs which can be passed around more easily.

If the file is an image, then the Sayabit link (like http://sayabit.com/LV9llB) takes you to a Webpage where the image is hosted, just like TwitPic. But if it is another kind of file, it just starts downloading right away (this will soon be changed to also first take you to a landing page.)

Already, there is lots of competition among Twitter file-sharing services. (See TwitDoc, FileTwt, Tweetcube). Sayabit, however, also offers password-protected links so that you can control who you are sharing with a little bit better. And it gives you charts and graphs showing you how many times your file has been clicked on.

Sayabit is the first product to come out of Sayagle, a startup in Cambridge, Mass. which is working on a broader product portfolio.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/16-apps-that-make-sharing-large-files-a-snap/

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Twitter is quickly turning into the media sharing platform of choice for many people, despite the fact that it, uh, doesn’t have any actual media sharing functionality. But a variety of services are popping up to fill the need, including countless Twitter-specific sites for sharing images, music, and video.

Today TwitDoc is launching what appears to be the first service for sharing documents over Twitter, bringing support for PDFs, Microsoft Office Documents, and a bunch of other file formats. The site has integrated with popular document sharing hub Scribd to make the process as painless as possible - it only takes around 20 seconds to send a document, and you don’t have to sign up to get started. To use the service, you enter your Twitter user name and password, choose the document or photo you’d like to send out, and add any text you’d like to include alongside the document’s link. Hit upload and you’re done.

It’s a handy tool, but I doubt it will reach the same level of popularity as TwitPic and its ilk - most people simply don’t have as many documents that they’d like to share with all of their Twitter followers. Still, it will definitely be helpful for sharing reports you find interesting, or scanned images that wouldn’t be readable if they were shrunk and compressed (which some image services do).

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