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Drop.io was an online file sharing service. It allowed users to quickly create "drops", which could contain files of any type, and could be accessed via the internet, e-mail, phone, fax, and widgets. The service did not require users to sign up for an account, and each drop was private unless the creator chose to share it. Drop.io was named one of TIME Magazine's 50 Best Websites of 2009, and CNET Webware 100. On October 29, 2010, Drop.io announced that the company had been purchased by Facebook and that the service would be shutting down. Sam Lessin, one of the site's founders, would be moving to Facebook. , the site is no longer active; the blog is also down, as of November 2011. ==History== Drop.io was founded by Sam Lessin and Darshan Somashekar in August 2007. The company's offices were originally located in Manhattan, New York City; it moved to the "DUMBO" neighborhood of Brooklyn in 2008. In November 2007, Drop.io completed a $1.2 million Series A round of financing led by RRE Ventures to support the company's development efforts and infrastructure growth. In March 2008, the company closed $2.7 million in series A-1 financing led by New York venture capital firms DFJ Gotham and RRE Ventures. Drop.io was nominated for the Technical Achievement Award at the South By Southwest 11th Annual Web Awards in 2007.〔(SXSW web finalists )〕 On June 10, Drop.io and Scribd, announced a partnership 〔(Drop.io Adds Scribd’s iPaper For Smoother File Browsing )〕 to offer rich conversion and viewing within private "drops", in an attempt to make it easier for people to share private information online. As of 2008, users can find Drop.io on a number of social networking sites, including: Facebook and Twitter. Between March 2007 and November 2008, drop.io released a series of feature improvements to their platform including 'inputs' and 'outputs' via various interfaces like phone and fax, a Twitter 'subscription' mode,〔(Portfolio: praise to the open web and harvard )〕 and a Firefox plugin〔(Drop.io: Drag and Drop )〕〔(Mashable: Drop.io Releases Drag-and-Drop Magic for Firefox 3 Users )〕〔(LifeHacker: Drop.io makes sharing files dead simple )〕 that allows users to 'drag and drop' files into new or existing 'drops' In September 2008, drop.io released a very simple API which allows other applications to use drop.io's file sharing ability in their own applications.〔(arstechnica on drop.io's digital switchboard api )〕 Several early applications were built, including usend.io (a simple file transfer app like senduit or yousendit).〔(download squad send files fast with usend.io )〕〔(lifehacker usend.io makes semi-big file sharing ludicrously simple )〕 Ars Technica appears to have built the first fully operational third party application on the API. In November 2008, drop.io announced having moved 100% into 'the cloud' having switched away from all owned and rented physical hardware/servers and claimed to be the largest 100% in the cloud application in the world.〔(alley insider, why take your startup all cloud )〕 Also in November 2008, drop.io released a major design overhaul which completely changed the front end of the product, but maintained the core service.〔(CNET Drop.io gets prettier, easier )〕 In December 2008, drop.io was one of the first services to release a Facebook Connect integration, which allowed users to publish updates of any sort made to any drop directly to their Facebook feed 〔(dropio turns facebook connect into file sharing )〕 In January 2009, drop.io launched a professional product extension called drop.io manager 〔(drop.io manager )〕〔(PC Magazine: Hands on drop.io manager )〕 which allowed users to create templates to pre-customize and brand drops, as well as get detailed reporting about how their drops are being used. In March 2009, drop.io launched playlist.io〔(playlist.io )〕 one in a series of 'applets' which allow for feature customization of drop.io around various use cases 〔(SocialTimes: drop.io launches playlist.io for easy listening )〕 Between February 2009 and May 2009, drop.io started integrating real-time features into its file sharing backbone using XMPP. This initially included chat functionality and real-time streaming of files, but expanded in May to include a web-presentation mode. On September 10, 2009, drop.io released ''Attach Large Files '', a pre-installed application for all Yahoo! Mail users. The app allows users to attach an unlimited amount of files up to 100 Mb and was developed entirely on (drop.io's API ) with their custom-built JavaScript library. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Drop.io」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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