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Ahh New Year’s. A great time to make promises that you’ll probably never fulfill. But hey, it’s the thought that counts anyway.

Here are the team’s resolutions for 2009–some Dropbox-related, some not, but we’ll put a little extra effort in following through with the ones that are …we promise!

Drew
My resolution is to start up my 90s rock cover band again and/or play more music.

Arash
I resolve to get my life together.

Aston
I resolve to play less fake drums (on Rock Band) and play more real drums (in a real band?).

Jon
My resolution is not to do anything I wouldn’t do. Namely, everything.

Rajiv
My resolution is not to die while I learn how to ride a motorcycle.

Rian
I resolve to make a musical career out of singing hate songs about Jon.

Mike
I resolve to make the clients faster.

Albert
Come up with ways to reward Dropbox users for spreading the word, and to assemble the still-boxed furniture still sitting in my living room.

Trevor
Make the Dropbox website more standards compliant and accessible to help meet the needs of users with disabilities, and to lead Dropbox to its first ever startup kickball tournament victory.

Michael
Get our new user walkthroughs setup and perfected and do whatever I can to further Dropbox’s global domination.

So, what are all

Crunchies Part 2December 30 2008

The results are in, and we’re a finalist for best new web startup of 2008! It’d mean the world to us if you could vote for us (We promise this will be the last time). Oh! I almost forgot– You can vote once a day until January 5th. Thanks!

Web makeover!December 12 2008

Greetings Dropbox citizens!

Did you open up http://www.getdropbox.com today to find something new and shiny? After several weeks of hard work, the web team is proud to unveil the redesigned Dropbox web interface.

A few things you’ll notice:

Bulk operations (finally)! Moving/deleting folders is now possible!
Navigation is now on the top rather than the left.
Information/actions are now displayed in small sideboxes on the right
Font changes! (lucida grande on mac, lucida sans unicode for windows)
Expanded footer
The FAQ is gone and has been replaced by a comprehensive help center
RSS feed for recent events!
While ‘Files’ is still accessible, the default view is the home page. To those of you worrying that the feed takes up too much space, we’ll be addressing this in the near future.
‘Upload’ has also been integrated into the filebrowser
More information for file revisions
Much more!

More changes are on their way too, so sit tight.

So, how does it look? What do you like? What don’t you like? Let us know!

We’ve got a case of the Crunchies…December 2 2008

Hey everyone! For those of you not familiar with the Crunchies, here’s a heads up:

The 2008 Crunchies is our second annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.

Readers are invited to nominate their favorite product or company in each of the fifteen award categories below. Readers can vote once a day until nominations end Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Midnight PST.

Five finalists will be selected for each award category and popular voting will run from December 15 – January 5, 2009 Midnight PST. The winners will be announced live at the award ceremony on January 9 in San Francisco.

Both start-ups and established technology companies are invited to submit themselves for consideration. Finalists will be selected by the Crunchies Committee based on their specific business accomplishments achieved during calendar year 2008.

We’re going for two awards - best user-interface design and best new start up of 2008. We’d be more than honored if you could help us out! (you can vote once per day till the 10th)

best user-interface design:
http://crunchies2008.techcrunch.com/nominations/?nominee=Dropbox&category=4

best new startup of 2008:

Happy Thanksgiving!November 27 2008

The Dropbox Team is thankful for the following things:

1. Happy users!

2. Rock Band

3. 2 hour long meetings that take place on a ping pong table

4. Being able to work in a colorful city alongside other great startups and people

5. Katana-ya, the Japanese restaurant open ’til 2AM located 3 blocks from our office

6. Lastly, we’re thankful for people who are thankful for us.

So, what are all of you thankful for?

All of us here at Dropbox hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving full of revelry and great family bonding. And of course, have fun stuffing yourselves full of amazing food. Just try not to exceed your quota! ;D

Cheers,
Dropbox