The newest beta release of Jungle Disk, version 3.1, now includes public online disk sharing. Now, you can create new online disks and make them public, giving you the ability to share the data using a conventional URL.

This allows users to share files with others who many not necessarily be Jungle Disk users.

Since Jungle Disk uses Amazon S3 to store the data, public data accessed by external users will be charged to the creator’s account. Selecting Rackspace to host the files will not incur bandwidth charges, as Rackspace only charges for data stored, not bandwidth used.

Scott Gibson from Jungle Disk adds,

this feature is not designed to be leveraged as a CDN service. We do have limits in place to prevent excessive downloads and abusing the service.

Additional features added to beta release 3.1 includes the ability to change sub-account passwords and to be able to search through the list of servers (versus scrolling through them all).

Read our Jungle Disk review or download Jungle Disk now and try these features out for yourself.