Dropbox: Files Without Borders
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Dropbox: Files Without Borders
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#2Absolutely true. Dropbox is one hell of a cloud backup solution. With Dropbox iPhone app, I have all my important files with me in my pocket.
Does anybody have numbers on their current free/paid users?
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#3Rodeo producer North American Midway Entertainment saved $25,000 in the first six weeks using Dropbox by eliminating overnight FedEx shipments with paperwork.
Wow. Talk about having a great story to tell. I'm sure there's a lot of individual users of Dropbox (myself included), but the business cost-savings angle could be a huge one for them to pursue.
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#4Rodeo producer North American Midway Entertainment saved $25,000 in the first six weeks using Dropbox by eliminating overnight FedEx shipments with paperwork. Wow. Talk about having a great story to tell. I'm sure there's a lot of individual users of Dropbox (myself included), but the business cost-savings angle could be a huge one for them to pursue.
Since Dropbox only does one-way access for people without an account, I assume they saved 25k by distributing paperwork, not receiving.
This implies they've been wasting almost $5,000 per week because they didn't find a content host / run an FTP / frickin E-MAIL the stuff.
What. The. (technological) Fail. You'd think they'd look into something like that a little earlier, as with a bit of setup an FTP host can be essentially as easy.
edit: hell, just use a Google Docs form, that handles distribution and filling it out and combining the results.
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#5Google docs does handle most files for uploading and downloading. I don't use it much, but it's cheaper than dropbox, but less capable as well.
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#6Dropbox is definitely great, and it really do deserve its extremly widespread usage.
It has actually made it so simple to do a backup that it gets done. Most impressive.
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#7dropbox is great but their upload speeds kills the service. I get around 40-60kb/s while on other sites i get 400-500kb/s
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#8You have to use gnome to use Dropbox, hopefully they fix that. Then all the systems folk will probably use this for quick n' dirty research projects.
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#9Good to see Dropbox getting the coverage - it really is a killer application for end-users.
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#10Rodeo producer North American Midway Entertainment saved $25,000 in the first six weeks using Dropbox by eliminating overnight FedEx shipments with paperwork. Wow. Talk about having a great story to tell. I'm sure there's a lot of individual users of Dropbox (myself included), but the business cost-savings angle could be a huge one for them to pursue.
Since Dropbox only does one-way access for people without an account, I assume they saved 25k by distributing paperwork, not receiving. This implies they've been wasting almost $5,000 per week because they didn't find a content host / run an FTP / frickin E-MAIL the stuff . What. The. (technological) Fail. You'd think they'd look into something like that a little earlier, as with a bit of setup an FTP host can be ess…
Google docs has an API, they also have folders. http://code.google.com/apis/documents/overview.html
I've used Google docs folders for team projects that include file types other than those used for documents, it simply 'stores' it in the folder along with revision history.
Is any weekend hacker thinking what I'm thinking?