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Dropbox’s Culture-Building, Product-Inspiring Outdoor Hikes

January 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management

The Curious Magic Of Dropbox’s Culture-Building, Product-Inspiring Outdoor Hikes
By David Zax, fastcompany.com

A hiking tour of San Francisco, with Dropbox coder Dan Wheeler.

Dan Wheeler is a programmer for the file-sharing company Dropbox. Click around a little on Dropbox.com, and odds are Wheeler had something to do with a given product or…

RT @FastCompany: A hiking tour of San Francisco, with @Dropbox coder Dan Wheeler: http://flip.it/joS4L by @DavidZax http://flip.it/vQQL6

Spiceworks Integrates with Dropbox (community.spiceworks.com)
BitTorrent Sync challenges Dropbox (themexicanpost.wordpress.com)

Benchmarking cloud sync and storage

December 17, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others: a cloud sync storage face-off
By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com

Does Drive stand a chance against sync and backup veterans?

Google’s very own “Loch Ness monster,” also known as Google Drive, has finally launched. It’s the new face of Google Documents, and it’s also Google’s oft-rumored Dropbox-killer. It…

Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others: a cloud sync storage face-off | The Verge http://flip.it/wkYEN http://flip.it/pWHzi

SugarSync – Seamlessly Sync Your Files Across Multiple Devices [iOS] (makeuseof.com)
Google Drive: 10 Reasons to Choose Another Cloud Data Storage Service (eweek.com)
Amazon Cloud Drive Adds File Sync, Becomes Dropbox Competitor (iClarified.com)

Google gDrive and Gmail take on Dropbox

December 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Gmail Facelift: New Features of Gmail
Steve Dotto, lifehack.org

Google is taking dead aim at Web 2.0 services like Dropbox as they expand the capabilities of Google Drive and integrate it more tightly with their other services like Gmail.
There is a new refined Gmail compose screen, which opens the door to…

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