Libox allows users to sync and share media through its desktop applications
Founder Erez Pilosof says he started Libox, after thinking about his biggest annoyances as a consumer. Managing media and sharing it “seemed very limited and tedious and problematic,” he says. Pilosof wanted to build a service that provided a consistent experience no matter how a user wanted to access her media.
Libox allows users to sync and share media through its desktop applications and a Web application that can be accessed from a browser. The Web application uses HTML, a Web technology that can be accessed by Apple’s iPhone and iPad, as well as Android smart phones and a variety of other mobile devices. Within a few months, Libox plans to launch native mobile applications optimized specifically for the iPhone, Android, and the iPad.
To use the basic service, which is free, a user has to install Libox’s software on a desktop machine. This software finds and processes all media files on the machine and processes new ones when the user loads them. Unlike many other syncing services, Libox does not move users’ data to its own servers. Instead, the company uses peer-to-peer sharing algorithms to distribute data across a user’s devices. For example, when a user accesses a song from a smart phone, Libox might stream that song to the phone from the user’s desktop machine.
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