I've been using dropbox for the last couple of days now and I must admit it's fantastic.
- Mark Lancaster
I've been using it for the past couple of days, and it works very nicely for sharing a few files between friends - which I guess is their target. It can be insanely slow though, and doesn't work well with large numbers of small files. Also I one of the non-techie but still power-users I know immediately thought that the folders were actually stored in the cloud (like iDisk) and that the content was in one and only one place.
- Robin Barooah
I can't help compare it to FolderShare - which a close to identical UI, but was completely P2P, and was much faster, and did everything that DropBox does but 4 years ago. It was even embedded in some NAS drives. The only problem with FolderShare was that development stopped when they were acquired by Microsoft which was before they had released their Linux client or Intel Mac version.
- Robin Barooah
It is a very natural way to share files and I will be using it. (Just to make it clear that my criticisms don't mean I think it's bad).
- Robin Barooah
I tried foldershare a few years ago and found it to be maddeningly quirky and unpredictable. The concept was ok, but it simply didn't work.
- Paul Buchheit
Dropbox is great. Remote storage at local speed. A big plus for client support on Mac, Windows and Linux. Suits my workflow very well.
- Håkan Dahlström
I love Dropbox. I've been using them for months now. One thing that does tend to make it choke is having too many directories. I had a bunch of symlinks that made it fail.
- Benjamin Golub
do they finally let me choose a different folder as the dropbox?
- Chris Hofmann
omg I did that today and some Trader Joe's workers taking a break gave me a bad look, then I'm like, hey, if I can't talk to myself on the street, where *can* I do it??
- anna sauce
Come to lunch in Half Moon Bay. Freshbooks will be here.
- Robert Scoble
lust put your finger up to your ear and pretend you're on a bluetooth if you get dirty looks!
- Adam C.
You'll be OK as long as you aren't doing voices.
- Joe Pierce
Reminded of the Tom Waits performance - Better off without a wife - where he talks about "taking myself out" I'm such good company and I'm always around.
- Dave Martin
I agree with Joe. Talking to yourself is one thing. Talking to yourself with multiple voices, accents, and personalities, that's different. I do that all the time, but it's just to entertain the kids. Really, it is.
- Mattb4rd
I am definitely an introvert, and also a social media participant. Introversion for me is about verbalizing, rather than sharing. I just tend to think inside my head rather than outside of it. ;)
- John LeMasney
I haven't left the house except to go to work in like 2 years. :) I'd say I'm an introvert.
- Adam Turetzky
I would have to go with Introvert/borderline extrovert myself. great article. @adam your comment made me chuckle a bit, good times.
- Percival
I own a t-shirt that says "You read my t-shirt. That's enough social interaction for one day." So, yeah.
- Marci Maleski
I'm very introverted, but that doesn't mean I don't want any social interaction at all. Social media helps me handle more social interaction (and control it better) than I could in person, without being exhausted.
- Nathan Howell
social web gives a place for introverts to be heard and those who would be ignored because they don't have the right look, job, degree or other defined posture.
- R. Ferguson
Being able to overlay HDR images onto the video to create HDR video is pretty cool. It would be cool to see stuff like this being done using the same techniques to emulate some of the fantastic HDR images we've seen on flickr - http://flickr.com/photos...
- Mark Lancaster
If you liked this, you *have* to see the output from Ziv Koren. Not quite the same thing but he has a novel way of combining video and photos http://bit.ly/1w3NMN
- Jauder Ho
I always snicker when secret agents impossibly "enhance" photos in movies
- Adam Loving
from StumbleRead
The guy who runs sartsj.nl did this photo, but I'm unsure if he's the photographer. Most of his stuff is off-line from the home page, so he may not be maintaining the website anymore. Direct link to wallpaper #1 http://sartsj.nl/wallpap... #3 http://sartsj.nl/wallpap... but this one's much better than the other two.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
Not a fan of hers, but I'm "liking" it anyway, because FriendFeed needs more girl pictures. ;p
- Anthony Citrano
Friend Feed needs more girl users! I am tired hanging out with you ugly Dudes! Mitchell maybe you should post some pics of good looking guys to attract the ladies? lmao
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Is it really a Rickroll if no music is involved? I'll have to consult the official guide. Chris should have queued up the audio for this one to really make it epic.
- Mark Krynsky
rick rolld by the OMKeyboard - Noooooooo!
- 4four1ones
im Jealous.... ill buy your apple keyboard
- lukethetechguy
Hmm this or that steampunk keyboard I saw the other day...tough call...
- Mo Kargas
Hehe I was just commenting on the same thing on my FF account.
- Chu Yeow
If the comments at 37Signals were threaded, they could have an option to hide all replies to the trolls. It'd be a great noise suppression tool.
- Michael Nielsen
Is saying something negative the same thing as being a troll?
- Nicholas Molnar
Looks like it's just slapped on the comment by whoever does the moderating (according to http://www.37signals.com/svn...) - it doesn't seem to be a per-user flag. That comment is the first one, so it doesn't demote it, and in fact it sort of draws my eye to the content. If I were a troll, it would be a badge of honor.
- ⓞnor
I think it would be even more clever if the troll comments were hidden by default (for everybody but the troll).
- Gabe
@Michael: Sounds a bit like Digg. Frankly, it always surprises me to find unthreaded comment systems. Usenet was threaded way back when, after all.
- Christopher Granade
The lack of threading is by design these days, usually. Not threading makes it hard for flamewars to persist because the back-and-forth responses get diluted by all the other comments on the article.
- Mr. Gunn
I guess I understand that it's by design, a la 140 character limits and whatnot. I just don't agree with it for a lot of sites. Go look at threads on Pharyngula and try to follow the action. It's infuriating.
- Christopher Granade
"Of the teens Wells polled online, 93 per cent say they prefer the internet to television."
- Timo Heuer
from Mento
Reminds me a lot of what Anastasia Goodstein of Ypulse, author of Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online has been telling us for some years now. Her recent mashup marketing event in SF represented this view pretty well too. Others like Danah Boyd and Eszter Hargittai have also explored the topic at length. Nice to see Sydney picking up on this though.
- Lynne d Johnson
Jack mentions text messaging emerging in the USA 2005-2006. This is much more popular in Europe than in the USA; this might imply that Twitter might grow much faster in Europe than in the USA. Any ideas?
- Jeroen De Miranda
presences, presences, presences.. Cisco and Microsoft pay attention
- Rif Kiamil
Who better to explain Twitter than its CEO?
- Mohamed J
Jeroen De Miranda: in Italy we are Text crazy, but we can't get SMS from Twitter and we have only a UK number to send... I Don't see any grow pattern here ;)
- Luigi Centenaro
wow i'm so much more passionate about describing what Twitter is when I present from stage - guess that's the difference between "creator" of said product and USER of product
- Deborah Micek