(6/23) - New Sharing Model (omg)! « Dropbox Forums
june 2010 by jwntr
Saw that (I follow their twitter). It's cool but doesn't effect what I'm doing. What is annoying is their Desktop API is broken and can't be used at the moment. They are only approving mobile apps. But I can do without the API for now.
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june 2010 by jwntr
The Cleverest Ways to Use Dropbox That You're Not Using
june 2010 by jwntr
One thing that dropbox does "behind the scenes" that you may not know about - they run file-level de-dupe on their end to save everyone bandwidth. I once put a large .mkv file into my dropbox folder, and it showed up as sync'd (and began downloading to my other PCs) within seconds. How did it upload that fast? Because another dropbox user already has that file in his or her own dropbox, so dropbox just "copied it" into mine (they verify the files are the same by doing CRC/hash compares).
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june 2010 by jwntr
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