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mcdowall
Looking forward to putting some of these into action.

Great office setup too, a tad jealous!

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sayemm
Just curious... is there currently anything out there now that automatically synchs the contacts of your phone's addressbook to Dropbox?
roxstar
Not that I know of but google sync manages it quite well for smartphones (though it is syncing it to a gmail account and not dropbox).
sayemm
Yeah I know google sync, but think it would be pretty awesome if I could back that all up across several different platforms via Dropbox, along with all my laptop/work stuff
lgarron
Dropbox is a folder dropbox, it's not MobileMe, or WhateverCompanyComprehensiveDataCloudSolution. (Although doesn't Google already do everything but files pretty well?)
appliedluck
I don't think I've seen anyone attempt to do it with the Dropbox API and your mobile contacts, but I'm pretty sure it could be done.
sayemm
Yup, that's what I'm thinking... I think it would be cool to hack something up like that.
ambirex
I've been playing with creating a CardDAV server, which is pretty mush shuffling vCard files around. You could probably something similar with Dropbox.
crocowhile
Android syncs your addressbook with gmail. Is it the only one to do that?
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ivankirigin
This was so much fun. The quality of the projects was astounding.
chadaustin
Well played, Dropbox. IMVU has quarterly, company-wide hack weeks but we've never written a blog post as fun as this one and CERTAINLY never exposed the list of projects we worked on. That took guts but it looks like it turned out well.
jrockway
Quite the mass of cut-n-paste code on the second photo from the top.
colbyolson
I don't understand what you're getting at.
jrockway
One of the monitors shows:

chunk of code

identical chunk of code

identical chunk of code

identical chunk of code

I found it amusing.

tomerico
Observation: Not a single female in the pictures