"Requires OS X 10.5+ Intel"<p>Unless you make it run everywhere Dropbox runs this is gonna be "The Dropbox + Mac powered social network".<p>I'd like to try it and give some more constructive feedback but I'm running Ubuntu.
It's a great idea technically, but I'm not sure whether you can sell a social networking app. Social networks are valuable in proportion to the number of users, and pay-for-access adds a huge barrier to growth.<p>They might be better off running some unobtrusive ads.
Fascinating. Dropbox is e first really popular "filesystem in the cloud" so it stands to reason that we are going to start to see services built on top of it. Rally, it is a piece of the old "everyone will have a server" dream. Except, instead of having to define as new protocol for evry service, you just use JSON over http. There is a lot of potential here, much can be made of a publicly available everywhere filesystme.
Amazing! Rian Hunter from Dropbox mentioned his vision about apps in this style in his talk at PyCon, that is very interesting in general: <a href="http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4878722/" rel="nofollow">http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4878722/</a>
Great idea! A few things that bothered me though:<p>1. Once someone has replied to your message you can't delete the conversation. If you could perhaps implement a "request delete" or something, so that if everyone agrees you can delete a conversation tree? Right now my "feed" is cluttered with lots of test convos. Another solution might be having a separate .json file for every user?<p>2. It wasn't obvious to me how you shared files. The "Set hotkey" option in the preferences should maybe be renamed to "Set file share hotkey" or something, at least explain a bit better without having to go the FAQ.<p>Other than that, looks good for a beta! I got a really strong "why didn't I think of that" feeling when I first tried it :)
Looks like a neat concept. It seems dropbox is fast becoming a platform. The other day, I was suggesting someone that they use quickbooks over dropbox for using it on multiple locations. I figured it does not work very easily, but the whole idea of using dropbox as a platform was kind of interesting.
I'd love to have this [1] view for the recently changed files list of the Dropbox app, it's so much cleaner.<p>[1] <a href="http://frenzyapp.com/images/panel1.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://frenzyapp.com/images/panel1.jpg</a>