Digital Service Review

on
Google Review

I've been using the google services for a number of years now. They're my go-to for searching, videos, text document sharing, etc. I've been using Gmail ever since it first showed up. I had yahoo email but Gmail was just all around better as they give you near unlimited cloud storage for your emails but it's also a quicker and more efficient system. I wouldn't use any other suite of internet tools. For professional use, if the client wants a video for an analysis you can upload a video to YouTube, set it to private, and then share it only with the client. Easy as you can possibly get.



Dropbox Review

I have to give cloud storage and sharing the credit it is due to start off. The ability to share/store any file away from your personal systems is outright incredible. To make it even better the Dropbox system is extremely simple as long as you can follow a tutorial. Here comes my beef with cloud storage. The cloud storage was proven to be easily accessed maliciously in 2016. Over 60 Million users of Dropbox were exposed on the internet.Your personal and private files are not truly safe when you store them on the cloud. Now to flip the table back over, the professional uses for this kind of service are pretty incredible. Need to share that document between you and a client or partner? Upload it on the cloud and it's all ready for them to view.








Soundcloud Review

Initially I was a little excited about making a brand new Soundcloud account. I went to one of my favorite artists, Shinedown, listened to a song I really love of theirs and it was great. I tried to listen to another song and it was locked down into a 30 second demo behind a pay wall. I got super disappointed at this point and tried another favorite band of mine and I listened to one song and looked around for a minute and saw what songs had the pay wall in front of them. I know they need to make money but in the end YouTube (aka Google) has a better monetization system. In YouTube's case it's paid by ads or you can support the system by doing YouTube Premium and no more ads. Soundcloud is no ads but you can only listen to a select few songs from each artist's albums before you run into a 30 second demo. Now, this is pretty bad but not all the artists do this with their music, I checked on one more artist I listen to and he hasn't put the block on his music. My final thoughts are I half like Soundcloud and half don't. The professional aspect of this service is good for musicians but sadly not podcasts so you may as well just use YouTube for audio and video sharing.

Comments

Post a Comment