Dropbox close to choosing investors — Round could put valuation at $10 Billion

Re:Dropbox close to choosing investors — Round could put val... by patio11 on Friday August 05, 2011 @11:12PM (#2852835)

I have successfully gotten family members to use two, count them, two ways to share photos, out of a dozen I suggested.

#1: Dropbox.

#2: http://www.eye.fi/ , which my mother uses to get photos on Facebook despite having no understanding of the file system metaphor.

Personally, I use Dropbox. It's super elegant in terms of the UX for my girlfriend. I take photos, drop them in my Dropbox folder, and send her an email. She makes with the clickyclicky on the magic blue bit. Bam, vacation photos. We both managed to screw things up, frequently, when I was trying to send her photos on Flickr without opening them to the entire Internet. Dropbox makes it a one-click operation for her, and I can manage drag-and-drop on most days.

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Re:Dropbox close to choosing investors — Round could put val... by matthewcieplak on Saturday August 06, 2011 @01:50AM (#2853178)

If you're trying to share galleries on dropbox but not to the whole internet, you should try views.fm: http://www.views.fm

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Re:Dropbox close to choosing investors — Round could put val... by georgieporgie on Saturday August 06, 2011 @06:11AM (#2853549)

http://www.eye.fi/

Thanks for posting that, I had no idea that any such device had actually made it onto the market!

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