is Dropbox dead ?

Dropbox just put Condoleezza Rice on their board of directors. She is probably the most anti-privacy official you can imagine and the former Secretary of State, and an advisory the NSA.

“Dropbox, the cloud storage firm with over 200 million users, is “hostile to privacy,” and urged people to switch to what he calls more-secure storage services like SpiderOak”

— Edward Snowden

I am a Dropbox user and loved their service, but will probably just use it in the future for my NPO and file-sharing. Sad that the US defense agencies destroy the future of USA's IT-industry.

Bring your stuff anywhere and share

Dropbox raised $250 million on a $4 billion valuation in 2011, and according to CEO Drew Houston they haven’t had to spend much of that money.

Dropbox has 200 million users and over four million businesses are using it in some way. A year ago, the company had 100 million users and over two million businesses using it.

Today, more than 97% of the Fortune 500 are on Dropbox and they expects to have 100% growth next year too!

Use Dropbox as the preferences storage and as you make changes to settings on one computer, those settings also get updated on your other computers.

Not all apps let you store preferences in Dropbox, but some notable ones do, including 1Password, the Powerpack, and Quickoffice Pro. Once you get used to it, you’ll wonder why more apps don’t support this great feature.