Drop.io has launched a new suite of features to enhance Drop.io’s file sharing experience, making it faster and easier for users to privately share and store pictures, videos, audio, documents, and other digital content with family, friends, colleagues and work groups.

Headlining the package of new Drop.io features is the integration of Twitter’s social networking and micro-blogging platform to enable ‘real-time’ sharing of files uploaded to a drop through a user’s personalized Twitter stream. By visiting a drop and entering a Twitter username and password, a user’s Twitter stream is instantaneously updated by a personalized “Tweet” when content is uploaded to the specified drop through one of Drop.io’s web, widgets, email, MMS, phone or fax inputs. Each “Tweet” update includes a direct Drop.io link to the new asset, giving users immediate ‘one-click’ access to updated content.

“A natural fit for Drop.io, the Twitter community has always embraced Drop.io as they recognize that Drop.io’s on-the-fly functionality delivers a powerful enhancement to Twitter’s social networking platform. Now, Twitter users can use Drop.io to post any sort of media into their Twitter streams from all the Drop.io inputs,” said Drop.io’s CEO Sam Lessin. “The instant ability to ‘Twitter’ out any ‘dropped’ file to an infinite number of Twitter accounts streamlines the online file sharing experience, while giving users extended control over the distribution of their content.”

In addition to the integration of Twitter functionality, Drop.io announced the release of a series of upgrades and enhancements to some of Drop.io’s most popular features. The upgraded feature set includes:

• Upgraded Notes – Drop.io’s new note editor allows for rich text composition, including color text, ordered lists, quotations and titles, and the ability to embed rich media content from social media sites, including: YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Viddler, Seesmic and Vimeo;
• SMS Alerts – Drop.io users can now receive updates via text message when their Drop has been updated with new content;
• User Selected Time Zone — Drop administrators can now set the default time zone for all views and uploads;
• PicLens Optimized View – Users can now use the Drop.io PicLens viewer and directly enter an optimized view of their drop;
• Photo Rotation;
• File Sorting in System View;
• Date and Time Stamping in RSS Alerts.

“Drop.io provides thousands of unique uses for thousands of unique people. Drop.io is not a structure, system or network – rather it is a platform that enables people to share in the most dynamic of ways,” added Lessin

AOL has brought three new iPhone OS applications to the market: AIM, AOL Radio, and Truveo, the leading video search engine.  Each of them are available as free downloads from the Apple App Store now.

“With AIM, AOL Radio and Truveo for the iPhone, consumers now have access to the world’s largest instant messaging network, over 350 streaming radio stations and millions of online videos,” said Kevin Conroy, Executive Vice President of AOL. “Over the past twelve months, AOL has revitalized its Mac development efforts and we’re thrilled to be bringing our world-class communications and multi-media experiences to iPhone users around the world via the App Store.”

The new AIM, AOL Radio and Truveo applications for the iPhone were built using Apple’s iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) and provide a great user experience, with added features unique to the iPhone.

• AIM for iPhone brings together all of the core features of AIM – such as real-time communication, the Buddy List window and the ability to see when friends and contacts are online and available to chat – and combines them with a host of new capabilities that make IM’ing from the iPhone easy and convenient, whether over a Wi-Fi, EDGE, or 3G network.

AIM has been designed from the ground up to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique user interface and advanced capabilities. New features developed specifically for the iPhone include the use of Gestures, which allows users to simply tap to start a new message or to swipe a finger to switch between conversations; Favorites, which puts the buddies with whom you keep in touch at your fingertips; and the ability to easily incorporate a photo taken with the iPhone’s built in camera as a Buddy Icon. AIM for iPhone will be available to users worldwide.

• AOL Radio for iPhone gives users in the U.S. immediate, free access to more than 350 best-in-breed stations including more than 150 local CBS RADIO stations and custom channels and more than 200 AOL Radio stations spanning 25 musical genres. AOL Radio for iPhone leverages the iPhone’s Core Location framework to detect a user’s location and automatically displays CBS RADIO stations nearest to the user. Additionally, AOL Radio for iPhone automatically adapts to the current connection speed of the device providing low-bandwidth streams when on a cellular network versus higher quality audio for Wi-Fi connections.

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference in June, AOL Radio was highlighted during the iPhone Developer Showcase and received the Apple Design Award for “Best Entertainment Application.”

• Truveo Mobile Video Search for iPhone maximizes the device’s premium video experience and makes it easy for users to search and browse through millions of online videos while on the go. Truveo’s leading video search engine provides direct links to video content that’s been optimized for the iPhone from a wide variety of video sources including CNN, Discovery Channel, HBO, NBC, PBS, Comedy Central, MTV and YouTube. Localized versions of Truveo Mobile Video Search for iPhone will be available for the U.S., Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, and the UK, with support for additional countries to follow in the coming months.

All three applications are available for free from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or here.

In addition to the AIM, AOL Radio and Truveo applications for the iPhone, AOL has also optimized many of its popular websites and services for the iPhone’s Safari browser including; AOL.com, AOL Mail, AOL Mobile Search, AOL Money & Finance, Moviefone, AOL Food, AOL Horoscopes, AOL TV Listings and AOL Shopping.