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This is the new Dropbox, with Condoleezza Rice et al on the board. How do you grow your installed base? Give a big corporation a load of money to install it on

by UVB-76 12y ago

This is the new Dropbox, with Condoleezza Rice et al on the board. How do you grow your installed base? Give a big corporation a load of money to install it on their customers' devices, whether they like it or not.

kayman 12y ago
The average consumer does not care. The average mom and pop just want to see it work across all devices. Take a photo, it available on your website or ios device immediately. Guido for technical expertise. Condoleeza for strategic partnerships. I see the plan now...
hadoukenio 12y ago
For now, it looks like there's a negative association with Dropbox and Condoleezza Rice. When only positive association can be seen on HN, can we then assume that the DoD's "social media" tools to control conversation has worked? (remember folks, this is no longer conspiracy territory).
- mkal_tsr 12y ago
  Look at the jtrig section for shaping/honeypots, https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/07/14/jtrig-tools-techniques/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/07/14/jtrig... ... there's no evidence it is related, but when you think about that and social media to promote things ... does that mean imgur and dropbox were planned for honeypots and IPOs? At this point it seems it's best just to assume everything is compromised and backdoored, oof.
  - hadoukenio 12y ago
    Oh. That's the first time I've seen that. Thanks. Here's some pure speculation: DEADPOOL - is.gd MOLTEN-MAGMA - CloudFlare LONGSHOT - Dropbox PIXTRIX - Imgur It's interesting to note that the CEO of is.gd (Nick Craig-Wood) and CloudFlare's JGC both blogged about solving GCHQ's challenge... maybe they both got approached?
bibinou 12y ago
This has nothing to do with Rice. Dropbox has had pre-installing contracts with Samsung for 2 years. http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/12/how-dropbox-continues-to-win-pre-loads-on-devices-like-the-samsung-galaxy-s3/ http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/12/how-dropbox-continues-to-w... https://www.dropbox.com/help/297/ https://www.dropbox.com/help/297/

by UVB-76 12y ago

kayman 12y ago

The average consumer does not care. The average mom and pop just want to see it work across all devices. Take a photo, it available on your website or ios device immediately. Guido for technical expertise. Condoleeza for strategic partnerships. I see the plan now...

hadoukenio 12y ago

For now, it looks like there's a negative association with Dropbox and Condoleezza Rice. When only positive association can be seen on HN, can we then assume that the DoD's "social media" tools to control conversation has worked? (remember folks, this is no longer conspiracy territory).

mkal_tsr 12y ago
Look at the jtrig section for shaping/honeypots, https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/07/14/jtrig-tools-techniques/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/07/14/jtrig... ... there's no evidence it is related, but when you think about that and social media to promote things ... does that mean imgur and dropbox were planned for honeypots and IPOs? At this point it seems it's best just to assume everything is compromised and backdoored, oof.
- hadoukenio 12y ago
  Oh. That's the first time I've seen that. Thanks. Here's some pure speculation: DEADPOOL - is.gd MOLTEN-MAGMA - CloudFlare LONGSHOT - Dropbox PIXTRIX - Imgur It's interesting to note that the CEO of is.gd (Nick Craig-Wood) and CloudFlare's JGC both blogged about solving GCHQ's challenge... maybe they both got approached?

bibinou 12y ago

This has nothing to do with Rice. Dropbox has had pre-installing contracts with Samsung for 2 years. http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/12/how-dropbox-continues-to-win-pre-loads-on-devices-like-the-samsung-galaxy-s3/ http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/12/how-dropbox-continues-to-w... https://www.dropbox.com/help/297/ https://www.dropbox.com/help/297/