Is Dropico the Picture of Perfect Cloud Synchronization?

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words.  But what happens when you lose your pictures, or your friends can't see them?  Then what?

As you can imagine, there are now several different places to upload and share your photos to, but it can sometimes get hard to track which photos you've posted where, or who has access to what.  This, I have found, is one of the appeals behind a service like Dropico.

The folks at Dropico have developed an awfully dead simple drag-and-drop interface solution that let's you quite literally copy the photos from one service to another without using your local computer.

Use Case Example: You just uploaded a photo via your mobile device to Facebook.  Now you want to share it on Flickr and Picasa, but you do not have the mobile apps installed and you're at your friend's house.  Instead of logging into Facebook, saving the pictures to the desktop, and then reuploading them to the other services, Dropico will just copy it from service to service without logging into the service itself.

Use Case Example: One of your friends uploaded some pictures that you've been tagged in, and you want to make sure you have a copy of it in case they decide to remove it or delete their account.  Dropico will actually let you view your friends' albums and copy pictures from theirs to yours.

NOTE: While I'm not sure whether this is against Facebook's privacy policy or not, I really like this feature and hope it stays.

For those of you who know a little about website authoring and FTP, I liken this to an FTP connection where both the local and remote servers are actually cloud based services instead of one of them being your local device.  

However, like any awesome service, I did find two major downsides:

• Only one Twitter Account
• Cannot add Facebook FAN Pages or Groups that I manage

Personally, I think that this kind of service would be ideal to help me move pictures/albums between my own personal profile and those photos that belong only with either my Group or FAN page.  I hope that this is not a Facebook restriction and something they will consider adding in future updates.

I also hope that one day, they might add an automated synchronization process to keep all the services in sync.  As of right now, it's only manual, which definitely gives you some incredible control.

In the end, even though it is a truly awesome service, for someone as complicated as myself, it could potentially lead to some headaches if in conjunction with a service like Backupify.  Doing so would obviously lead to duplicate backups of the same photos.  Regretfully, asking for the ability to remove duplicate photos is probably a loooong way off due to the various file naming formats across the different services.  Perhaps once photo recognition software gets better, we might be able to help reduce backup disk space by only saving the same photo once instead of multiple times from various sources.  But, if you're not using Backupify, and looking for a great way to backup your cloud photos by not keeping all your eggs in one basket, then this is definitely the way to go.

What do you think?  Great service or too much replication/duplication?