With broadband internet connections quickly becoming the norm, many online file-sharing / storage services have come to play. Here's a review of some of them.
Windows SkyDrive
http://skydrive.live.com
This is Microsoft's own file-sharing service. As far as I know, you are required to have a Windows Live Messenger Account (i.e., hotmail ID, etc.) so you need to sign up first before you can use this. The total storage per account is 5GB, with a 50MB cap on the size of each uploaded file.
True to the Microsoft's way of doing things, you are working with folders. You have three types of folders: your Personal (only you can access), Shared (only you and selected users), and Public (accessible to anyone). You need to be familiar with the concepts of file permissions to get this done with less hassle (as I've had seen people who are struggling with this one).
As of the moment, since this is very, very new, you can expect a few bugs here and there and a lot of room for improvement. Maybe in a few weeks or months, after getting tons of feedback, we'll see some improvements.
Drop.io
http://drop.io
One of the newer services, with up to 100MB maximum storage free, or 25GB at US$10 per 1Gb per year. You can use it immediately to share files even without creating an account. Good for those quick file drops you need to share ASAP.
Aside from that, it is integrated with Facebook, so if you're a Facebook user, you should have no problems sharing files with other users there.
Lastly, you supposedly can add a Drop.IO widget into your website/blog, but I have yet to do this. I'm still going through the site's FAQs and stuff.
If you are not comfortable with the above, you can always just use the tried-and-tested filesharing services out there, such as RapidShare and MegaUpload and their variations (both having a total upload size cap per country/region, unless you have a premium account), MediaFire and YouSendIt.
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