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I think it is a brilliant idea to merge file paths with email addresses. In hindsight it feels like a logical next step from services such as Dropbox, where eve
by bflesch 10y ago
I think it is a brilliant idea to merge file paths with email addresses. In hindsight it feels like a logical next step from services such as Dropbox, where everything is about sharing files. You share a file and the other person gets sent an email notification that you've shared that file with them.
It's great to see that they try to think outside the box and actually innovate on something that the Dropbox engineers also could've (and now also "should have") thought of.
- bflesch 10y agoNow when I think about it, Dropbox could still beat them to market by implementing and marketing this type of file addressing with their existing userbase.
- vesinisa 10y agoTo be fair, the way to reference remote files like this is hardly novel. For example the Unix rcp(1) command has supported a very similar username@example.com:path/to/file syntax since at least 4.3BSD-Reno (1990): https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rcp&sektion=1&manpath=4.3BSD+Reno https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rcp&sektion=1&manp...
- bflesch 10y agoI know this syntax from ssh. But up until now nobody framed this technicality into the "email" context where even my grandmother could understand the concept!