This week’s vein of Online Ore can be found at http://drop.io/

Drop.io is a free online file sharing service with visual twist.  It has all the speed of an FTP transfer, but you can view images, share files and add comments directly from your web browser.

Quick sort options let you view lists by date added or type of file, and drop.io comes with easy to select pre-built templates optimized for sharing through twitter, presenting material in presentations, working in collaboration, or make the content exclusively available to friends or paying clients.

Wendy Wentzel, one of MB/I’s crackerjack designers …

What is Online Ore?
Online Ore is a new feature here at the Gold Mine, and one that has us all fired up.  Each week, on Monday morning we’ll be featuring a new site or service to improve the life or productivity of business owners or their employees.

Online or not, each of these nuggets is a tool that can be used to find value, joy, or efficiency, either inside the workplace or out of it.

So far we have featured

• Mint, a personal finance management site.
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This week’s vein of online ore can be found at www.groupon.com

Groupon provides a service for vendors and customers alike, by making group discounts more accessible to the general public.  Every day Groupon offers a group discount in the form of a special coupon that only “activates” if enough people sign up to meet the requirements specified by the vendor.

For the consumer this means a chance at great discounts on wonderful services, a chance which improves when they tell their friends, but which comes with no risk if the offer falls through.

For the vendor, Groupon …

This week’s vein of online ore can be found at http://bit.ly

Bit.ly will take any web address and shorten it to exactly 20 characters. This is especially useful when you are making a short form post like a Twitter entry or a Facebook status update, were the total length of your post is limited. However, it is also handy whenever you encounter a site with a URL more than a line long.

In addition, bit.ly tracks statistics, letting you know how many people followed your links, and whether …

This week’s vein of online ore can be found at http://vimeo.com

Vimeo is a high definition, community driven video sharing site.  While most video sharing sites limit the quality or length of the clips you upload, Vimeo allows the full 1280×720 resolution supported by HD TVs and monitors.

As with other video sharing sites, you can embed your favorite clips into your own website, indicate which films you like, and leave comments for the video creator and the other community members who like their work.

And speaking of community, Vimeo’s is highly collaborative, creative, and encouraging  - with their …

This week’s vein of online ore can be found at www.mint.com

Mint.com is a free online accounting site that you can use to track your bank accounts, debit obligations, and investments; plan budgets; set goals; and receive alerts when there is suspicious or off-plan activity on your accounts.

Once you give Mint permission to monitor an account it will update your records automatically every time a change is made to the account, giving you real time graphs and charts showing you where your money is coming from and going to, and how close you are to meeting your …