Actually I installed Droplr, too. I installed the software because I saw a friend mentioned about it. He is also a Mac/iPhone software developer, when he said Droplr is the coolest Mac application, I believed it. I was really curious about what is the coolest application.

Take me as an example, their way to promote their service - to ask the user to tweet about the software as the last step of installing the software – really works somehow.

After seconds, I saw my friend said, “I was sold for 1 GB online storage space.”

I am wondering, if the best way to promote something is to steal the identities of the other people in our era.

The design of Droplr looks elegant, but I still removed it. You can share small files such as text files and screenshots via Droplr, but I am already using some great services to do it. I use Skitch to share screenshots since it provides not only online storage for pictures but also an easy-to-use image editor, it helps me to make notes on my screenshots. I use Dropbox to share files with my colleagues.

The most special part of Droplr is, it helps you to share your file via Twitter easily, when you upload something it will give you a URL instantly. However, I never share files via Twitter, and I think I will not do it, too.

ready-able:

I installed Droplr to try it out. This is the last step of the setup. Fuck no. Don’t treat your users like tools to gain social networking hype.

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    hate campaigns like this. What...carpet bomb spamming attack.

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    storage, then delete...tweet as quickly as possible.

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    Holy hell. Do they really think this strategy works? Here’s the best-case scenario*: Someone whose opinion

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