{"id":4405,"date":"2012-02-29T17:06:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T22:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2012-02-29T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T22:06:48","slug":"dropbox-as-a-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/29\/dropbox-as-a-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox as a Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/stories\/2012\/02\/27\/dropboxRevisit.html\">Dave Winer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/stories\/2012\/02\/27\/dropboxRevisit.html\"><p>Dropbox has the opportunity to build a platform that sits outside all the platforms we&rsquo;ve come to know. Their challenge is to get users to care whether they can connect their Dropbox data to the devices they use. So far, they&rsquo;ve done better than anyone else. And they won&rsquo;t have to deal with the second-guessing and turf wars that happen inside big companies. I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s a slam dunk that Dropbox will grow to be a huge tech company, but I also don&rsquo;t think their product is just a\n feature.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Winer: Dropbox has the opportunity to build a platform that sits outside all the platforms we&rsquo;ve come to know. Their challenge is to get users to care whether they can connect their Dropbox data to the devices they use. So far, they&rsquo;ve done better than anyone else. And they won&rsquo;t have to deal with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4406,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/4406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}