Dropbox (www.dropbox.com)
Dropbox is an easy-to-use, simple means of accessing your data anywhere.
It's as easy as uploading it to your account on the website, or as easy to as dragging and dropping into a folder on your computer.
Signing up for Dropbox gives you 2 gigs of storage free (or, if you accept a friend's referral, 5) with paid options to increase your storage. Your data is available wherever you have an internet connection (through the website) or wherever you download the Dropbox program or app. I have a work Dropbox account that I access through the website, and a personal one that lets me see my files on my desktop at work and my desktop at home, and additionally on my iPod Touch. When you use the program or app, your data is available whether or not you have an internet connection, making it easy to access your data when you need it most. It also offers functionality to share files with other users, making it great for collaboration of both files and folders.
Skydrive (http://skydrive.live.com)
Skydrive is part of Windows Live, which controls many old and new Microsoft services (including Hotmail and Xbox Live). The most useful benefit to this service is that, if you're already part of Windows Live, it's the same username and password to access your Skydrive as it is to access your Hotmail. Skydrive at its most basic is a combination of both
Google Docs and Dropbox, offering simple but effective versions of Microsoft's own Office products in a web browser to create new documents, spreadsheets, and presentations while also offering 25 gigs of free file storage (with a 100mb upload limit per file).
Skydrive offering the functionality of Microsoft Office is perhaps the greatest strength of this particular service. Many of the features are present and able to be used, and there is a built-in export feature to the current Office product.
Currently it supports Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OneNote. Like Dropbox it offers sharing options to other users, or keeps your data private.
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