The internet has made it so that students like ourselves no longer have to be simply consumers of media, we are also creators, and manipulators of it. Well, that's great and all, but when you have millions of people with similar access to the internet your gonna have problems. As author Sarah J. Wachter writes in the New York Times article "Beaming to the Cloud All the Mess That is Our Digital Life" our "digital closets" are overflowing with info as well. We may make use of the unlimited space of the internet, but the digital info we store is scattered across a range of devices like phones, computers, and mp3 players. One answer to this problem is the rapidly growing business www.sugarsync.com which allows users to store, back up, sync, share and collaborate on data, music and photos and reach that information from any device, anywhere. In fact they offer a 2 gigabyte service for free, and offer up to 60 gigabytes for $9.99 a month. While sugarsync.com is not the only digital content management service it is one of the largest names in the business right now, and a free 2 gigabyte service is an offer that will make you find a good use for the service. I recommend you all to give the service a chance and see if you can't come up with a good use for a service that is expected to be a $4 billion industry by 2012.
Ive linked the service website and the article below for you to check them out:
https://www.sugarsync.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/technology/25iht-clutter25.html?_r=1&ref=technology
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