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Share stuff from Dropbox in your Facebook Groups

58 points by derpenxyne 14y ago

spicyj 14y ago
Looks like a huge partnership for Dropbox -- congrats guys.
DanielBMarkham 14y ago
Great partnership, however I do not want to become one with the Facebook collective. I spend too much time over there already. Aside from my personal feelings about Facebook being the devil, congrats on a neat feature.
- flyt 14y ago
  Facebook isn't the devil, it's just a bunch of nerds running a hugely complicated system and trying to be self-sustainable. Anything else is simple paranoia.
  - kirubakaran 14y ago
    "... Anything else is simple paranoia." Not commenting on whether or not Facebook is "evil" as I just don't know. But we really need an antonym for 'paranoia' that is just as condescending. Whenever someone raises a valid concern when people reuse their password everywhere, when a company pushes the privacy boundary, when people don't make backups, etc, they are often faced with dismissive replies such as "Oh who is going to bother hacking me?", "Oh you are just paranoid" etc. 'Hapless' may be? Relevant xkcd http://xkcd.com/743/ http://xkcd.com/743/ In reply to your comment, flyt, "trying to be self-sustainable" is the end. This doesn't preclude "evil" as the means.
- HaloZero 14y ago
  Whenever anything with Facebook goes up on Hacker News why does at least one person always feel like mentioning that either they "dislike using facebook" or "don't use facebook at all"?
  - emmett 14y ago
    Basically for the same reason that this onion article is funny: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/ http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
emergencynap 14y ago
What's next? Stack overflow?
jamesbritt 14y ago
Getting comfy with Facebook makes me leery of Dropbox's commitment to privacy.
webwanderings 14y ago
Now people can finally reveal their illegal downloads to the world through Facebook.
jefftchan 14y ago
I wonder what this means for http://filepicker.io http://filepicker.io It's validation of the market but they're not part of the deal.
- brettcvz 14y ago
  We're working on it :D To me, this is a big win for Dropbox but a big detriment to the ecosystem and other storage players. It's essentially like saying "Only works in IE6" - worked well to buy IE lock-in, but was a Bad Thing for the web. We, of course, want to help rectify this!
techn9ne 14y ago
I wonder if it will work from mobile?
addflip 14y ago
Very useful. I didn't think it was possible to make Dropbox better but... they did.
ed209 14y ago
I'm not sure how useful this is [for me]. All the computers I access Facebook from I already have a synced dropbox set of directories so choosing one of those is just as much effort as choosing the from the Dropbox picker menu. I can see that it could be useful for people accessing facebook from public computers or other temporary devices. When I first read it I assumed you got a directory in Dropbox that when you posted a document to it, it added it automatically to the linked facebook group.

58 points by derpenxyne 14y ago

Looks like a huge partnership for Dropbox -- congrats guys.

Great partnership, however I do not want to become one with the Facebook collective. I spend too much time over there already. Aside from my personal feelings about Facebook being the devil, congrats on a neat feature.

flyt 14y ago
Facebook isn't the devil, it's just a bunch of nerds running a hugely complicated system and trying to be self-sustainable. Anything else is simple paranoia.
- kirubakaran 14y ago
  "... Anything else is simple paranoia." Not commenting on whether or not Facebook is "evil" as I just don't know. But we really need an antonym for 'paranoia' that is just as condescending. Whenever someone raises a valid concern when people reuse their password everywhere, when a company pushes the privacy boundary, when people don't make backups, etc, they are often faced with dismissive replies such as "Oh who is going to bother hacking me?", "Oh you are just paranoid" etc. 'Hapless' may be? Relevant xkcd http://xkcd.com/743/ http://xkcd.com/743/ In reply to your comment, flyt, "trying to be self-sustainable" is the end. This doesn't preclude "evil" as the means.
HaloZero 14y ago
Whenever anything with Facebook goes up on Hacker News why does at least one person always feel like mentioning that either they "dislike using facebook" or "don't use facebook at all"?
- emmett 14y ago
  Basically for the same reason that this onion article is funny: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/ http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...

emergencynap 14y ago

What's next? Stack overflow?

jamesbritt 14y ago

Getting comfy with Facebook makes me leery of Dropbox's commitment to privacy.

webwanderings 14y ago

Now people can finally reveal their illegal downloads to the world through Facebook.

jefftchan 14y ago

I wonder what this means for http://filepicker.io http://filepicker.io It's validation of the market but they're not part of the deal.

brettcvz 14y ago
We're working on it :D To me, this is a big win for Dropbox but a big detriment to the ecosystem and other storage players. It's essentially like saying "Only works in IE6" - worked well to buy IE lock-in, but was a Bad Thing for the web. We, of course, want to help rectify this!

techn9ne 14y ago

I wonder if it will work from mobile?

addflip 14y ago

Very useful. I didn't think it was possible to make Dropbox better but... they did.

ed209 14y ago

I'm not sure how useful this is [for me]. All the computers I access Facebook from I already have a synced dropbox set of directories so choosing one of those is just as much effort as choosing the from the Dropbox picker menu. I can see that it could be useful for people accessing facebook from public computers or other temporary devices. When I first read it I assumed you got a directory in Dropbox that when you posted a document to it, it added it automatically to the linked facebook group.