Dropbox, it's huge

I wrote a relatively lengthy article about Dropbox a couple days ago, and to my surprise and joy, the article has drawn so much attention from our readers. I was a bit worried that not as much readers would appreciate the huge potential that this venture company possesses as I do. The result; I saw the most huge response on a famous Japanese social bookmark service. Even though virtually nobody knows about Dropbox even in the US at this moment, it could have a gigantic impact on computing. It could change the whole picture of consumer computing. Go check this demonstration movie by yourself, if you are a techie. They'd blow you away. The idea, services and technologies are not necessarily impressive on their own, but just imagine what could be done with it. One example which occured to me as soon as I knew the service was putting your photos directly to your local Windows folder to publish them on Flickr. You can edit those pics without downloading and uploading them each time. Now, who needs a local hard drive? They are woking on Web APIs.

I'm too lazy to translate my Japanese article, but it contains a whole lot more info that I heard from the CEO via email. He seemed like a nice guy and revealed the technologies that they use or developped on their own.