It’s Friday, so today’s roundup is “awesomeness.”
- Our monkey-lovin’ friends at MailChimp expand to four-footed branding, launching “Longrep.ly” for when you care more than 140 characters
- Darren Hoyt on one of the best posts this week, “Designing Readability” (Readability.com here)
- If you haven’t already found this treasure, Under Consideration Quipsologies chronicles the most curious, creative, & notable!
- Tiny Speck’s Glitch released a wonderful treasure-filled wiki with over 1,200 articles written by & for the community
- Possibly the best article on Kickstarter to date, learn more about successful fundraising through Kickstarter, “KickStartup” by @craigmod
Wildcard: One of our readers, Sacha Greif, shared an app with us, Locomotive CMS, an open source CMS for Rails & another reader, Marc Gayle of Jamaica, provides some interesting (possibly controversial, but very supportive) insight into How Dropbox is Printing Money”
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Handpicked by Chrissie (@tenaciouscb)
There’s a technical problem with the Dropbox article’s hypothesis that for any file uploaded by multiple users, Dropbox is only saving one copy. Dropbox claims that your files are encrypted on disk, and that without your account password the content of your files is inaccessible even to their staff. The problem is that if every encrypted copy of a given file is the same regardless of password, the data is effectively not encrypted. Back to the drawing board on that article, I’m afraid.