Fan of P2P technology, are you? What about the Mozilla application framework? If both of these things strike your fancy, perhaps Joodo will interest you.
Built to serve as a peer-to-peer device that connects you to friends and family to create a “personal sharing network” in which photo albums, video captures, and generally anything that you’d like to access across a range of remote terminals, Joodo is being made to hybridize file sharing in an intuitive, easily manageable way.
Still in alpha stage, Joodo is a mix of Mozilla code, XUL, C++, SVG, PHP and other undisclosed bits and pieces that come together into truly multifaceted utility that lets you view things shared through the cloud by your personal connections. Consider it a mashup of YouTube, Flickr, Pando, albeit in a self-contained, permissions-based system. With fewer user accounts to manage, too.
Some aspects to Joodo might seem off, and inviting of copyright infringing abuse, but the platform itself is being positioned a personal sharing utility, and given its privacy settings, that seems an accurate description. Hey, when all's said and one, maybe you and your loved ones are simply into the file-sharing idealism. If that’s the case, Joodo may well serve you and your circle of contact quite well. (Note: Windows compatibility only, for the time being. Mac and Linux support are coming. An API is in the works as well. Joodo’s CEO claims that its “real business value will lie in third-party products designed to leverage Joodo’s platform.”)