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  • Kevin Chiu 2:04 am on September 18, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Face time 

    When I arrived at ENTP in Oregon today Eirik revealed that he had never met Tom. Then we realized that I was the only person at the company who has actually met everyone.

     

    • eirik 6:34 pm on September 25, 2008 Permalink

      Well now you and Zeke share that honorable distinction. :) Hope you're feeling better.

    • Kevin Chiu 8:07 pm on September 25, 2008 Permalink

      Actually, Zeke hasn't met Rabble or any of the other remote ENTP guys.

  • Kevin Chiu 10:02 pm on September 16, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    drop.io vs getdropbox.com 

    getdropbox.com wins, and here’s why:

    * Syncing up to 50 gigabytes of content, seamlessly, across Mac, Windows, and Linux.
    * Sharing individual folders, with per-folder “push-like” data publishing.
    * Edit history, ability to un-delete stuff.
    * Automatic organization of media.
    * Other crazy awesome stuff.

    What does drop.io do?

    * Share a file. At least it’s easy.

    I love Dropbox! It beats drop.io by leaps and bounds.

     

    • Deadman 7:17 pm on September 29, 2008 Permalink

      drop.io also offers recording from voicemail and offers a free conference call number. although its only 100 Mb.

    • Kevin Chiu 11:45 am on September 30, 2008 Permalink

      Hmm, that's interesting. I didn't know that drop.io was branching off into telecom.

    • Arvell Craig 10:24 am on February 13, 2009 Permalink

      Thanks. I just found out about drop.io today and was just searching this topic

    • Impossible 9:16 am on March 19, 2009 Permalink

      The two services are distinct. DropBox requires a desktop client to fully take advantage of the syncing versus drop.io that just requires a web browser. Also, drop.io supports document viewing, audio file listening and many other advanced features that DropBox fails on. Next time do some research.

    • Newman 10:15 am on April 6, 2009 Permalink

      Yeah, I’m still up on the air about which to use and to recommend to others. I guess, I need to use them both and figure it out…

      Thanks for the post about it… and the research you did do

    • newman 10:17 am on April 6, 2009 Permalink

      PS: The link to drop.io is broken. FYI
      http://drop.io

    • Kevin Chiu 5:32 am on April 7, 2009 Permalink

      Thanks Newman, I’ve fixed the link. Also, you should check out my latest post on Dropbox.

    • Jaysee 1:23 am on June 18, 2009 Permalink

      i love dropbox. 2G for free storage amazing. totally using it when i start work.

    • Joshua 7:53 am on October 29, 2009 Permalink

      I’m not sure what kind of reasoning was involved with your verdict. DropBox and drop.io are extremely distinct services which focus on completely different things. Dropbox is mere storage and sync, drop.io is online collaboration. Drop.io focuses on giving you “drops” which store more than just files, but chat rooms, voicemail, watchable video, audio, presentations, notes/text, images, etc. Dropbox is just…storage and sync. Don’t get me wrong, I love dropbox and use it everyday, but saying Dropbox wins over drop.io is like saying an apple is better than an orange.

    • Kevin 5:11 pm on October 29, 2009 Permalink

      Joshua, it’s been months since I posted this, and drop.io has diversified its feature set greatly.

    • Yu-kai Chou 12:20 pm on December 6, 2009 Permalink

      Hey Kevin,

      Thanks for the post. I have been using Dropbox but heard people rave about drop.io, especially about the new present.io features. Can you create an updated post about the 2 services and see which one is better for what type?

      Thanks and keep the amazing posts going! I’ll follow you on Twitter.

    • Kevin Chiu 8:04 pm on January 3, 2010 Permalink

      Hey Yu-kai,
      Updating this post is on my Todo list now. Thanks for reading as well as the Twitter follow!

  • Kevin Chiu 9:52 pm on September 16, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Disqus future strategy 

    Disqus is a company currently doing hosted commenting systems, primarily for blogs. They should also do these:

    * rating blog posts
    * polls
    * RSVPs
    * colored labels (if you see a comment you really like, become a fan of the poster so that their comments are highlighted in the future.
    * following (follow that awesome commenter)
    * banning (make someone’s comments invisible to you)

    that’s it off the top of my head…

     

  • Kevin Chiu 12:32 am on September 10, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

    The Large Hadron Collider is Going Live! 

    Here’s a PhD Comic describing the potential black-hole manufacturing facility.

     

    • Eric 7:33 pm on September 15, 2008 Permalink

      This picture clearly shows that Google believes it will be sucked into a black hole.

  • Kevin Chiu 7:59 pm on September 9, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    AAA Board Meeting 

    I’m at the AAA board meeting right now. It’s suprisingly similar to the EGSC meetings… money… reserving places… organizing parties… interviewing officers.

    A note on that last bit, interviewing officers — among everything else they’re screening for BLOGGING SKILLS. Finally people are starting to realize how important blogging is.

     

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