file sharing

Drop It Like It’s Hot. Facebook Acquires Drop.io

by Jeff Weisbein October 29, 2010
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Facebook has acquired the file sharing/storage site Drop.io according to a post on the company blog.  The service will be shutting down on December 15th, 2010.  Yet again, Facebook is acquiring startups for talent, technology, and assets only to leave the startup to die (e.g. Friendfeed) or just to shut it down (e.g. essentially every [...]

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FriendFeed Adds File Sharing Support

by Jeff Weisbein June 28, 2009
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FriendFeed now allows its users to share (almost) any file directly through the site itself.  You can easily share pictures, PDF’s, text files, and even audio files.  Features like these aren’t all that new, we saw them in the past with Pownce (remember them?  The Twitter killer), but, the addition of file sharing to the [...]

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Opera Announces Opera Unite

by Matt Hodges June 16, 2009
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A few days ago, Opera told us to expect something big.  Many speculations have come up as to what ‘reinvent the web” could actually mean—and most people scoffed at Opera’s claim.  Today, Opera announced Opera Unite.  Their nutshell explanation of what Opera Unite actually is states “Opera Unite is a unique technology that turns any [...]

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