I have mentioned previously that I like everything in it’s place. I am a fan of dedicated services. That is, I like my photos shared through a service dedicated to providing the best photo sharing experience possible, such as Flickr. Meanwhile, I like my videos shared through a service dedicated to providing the best video sharing experience possible, such as Vimeo. I realise it’s probably a little pedantic, but it’s the way I like it.

At the same time I’m a fan of rich desktop clients (or mobile ones for that matter) and the interfaces they have to offer. For example, I love the service Google Maps provides, but I love it even more in the iPhone client. I love Wordpress, but I prefer being able to blog through Posterous (or rather, Apple Mail). A lot of the interfaces and rich clients I am seeing now (such as Posterous and Droplr) seem to want to aggregate, and host all my files themselves. Even if they share with other services, aggregators still retain a primary copy.

I ask, what’s wrong with being a delivery mechanism, an uploader? What’s wrong with being a rich client, or an interface? I would like to see the emergence of a company who understands it’s okay to be just that, and leave the hosting and sharing to those who specialise in the particular field (including short URLs people – use bit.ly).

I wonder if I’m along in this, or if there is really any merit in the idea. I leave it to you to decide.