One of our faithful readers, Alex, noticed our underlying plea for an invite to the Dropbox service that we wrote about earlier today. While Dropbox has no formal way to invite a friend they do let you share a folder with others, and if they don’t have an account it will let them create one on-the-spot. So Alex shared a folder with us, and we were able to get an account!
Now we want to help spread some of the Dropbox love. There doesn’t appear to be any limitation on the number of people you can share a folder with, but we don’t want to be sending invites day in and day out. So we’ll send invites to the first 50 people who request them in the comments below.
All we need is your email address which you can specify in the email field (registered users can change their email address on the account page), or you can put it in the comment field if you don’t mind everyone seeing it. After we send out the 50 invites we’ll let everyone know in the comments, and hopefully some other individuals will take a few minutes to invite the others who weren’t fortunate enough to get in on the action.
Make sure you check your spam folder because it’s very much possible that it will be filtered as spam by your email service. We won’t be sending them out every minute or anything, and so you may have to wait a few hours to get your invite. We do sleep contrary to popular belief.
And remember, Dropbox is a Beta service so don’t yell at us if your computer blows up or grows mutant legs and walks away.
UPDATE: Bad news guys, it looks like Dropbox is currently limiting the number of people you can invite using this method. We were only able to send invites out to the first four commenters. I really apologize, but they didn’t state anywhere that they limited that. I would very much appreciate it if the people who do receive the invites contact me so that they can share the invites with some of the other people who were supposed to get them.
UPDATE 2: Okay, invites have been sent out to EVERYONE as of 8:30AM Central Time on March 14th. Don’t ask us how we did it, because we’re not proud of it. Just check the email address you provided (especially the spam folder) for the Dropbox invite.
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I would really like to try this service
Thanks in advance
Awesome - i’d like an invite
Looks simpler than e-mailing to my gmail and the numerous software I have tried (e-mailing to myself still preferred). I wouldn’t mind running a test of dropbox.
Thank you.
Solar Hydro
Very nice. I would like an invite too. Thanks in advance.
I could totally use this right now. Much appreciated!
Yes please!
Yes Yes Please
I’d love an invite! thanks so much
PLZ
I’ll take one, thanks!
You guys are great!!!
Love the website. You guys rock.
Me Please!
I’d like an invite please.
“We do sleep contrary to popular belief.
And remember, Dropbox is a Beta service so don’t yell at us if your computer blows up or grows mutant legs and walks away.”
I blurted out laughing after I read that.
awesome
Can you please send me an invite? Thanks!
Sweet. Thanks!
I found this comment on dropbox, thought since this post was about sharing a folder I thought I would pass along.
Doug K. said:
I love what this looks like it can do, I’ll be trying it out but I won’t be sharing files with anyone! Isn’t that the point, you say? Sure but the license gives away ALL my rights, even if I only share with a select few. I guess they aren’t planning on using this in the enterprise!
“While you own the content contained in Your Files, you hereby grant all other Dropbox users a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use and exploit Your Files in your public folder.
In addition, you hereby grant Dropbox users who have been given access to your shared folder a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use and exploit Your Files in your shared folder.”
Too scary, call off the lawyers boys!
* Doug K.
http://gigaom.com/2008/03/11/d.....-drop-box/
Disclaimer I have not read the EULA myself so I do not know if this is accurate or not. And really, I wonder what monetary gain that they might gain if I shared the pictures of the last family Reunion?
taf
Could I get an invite? Thanks!
Hi, please count me in
I’d like to test this service as well. Thanks!
I would like to have one also, would be nice to keep my code on my laptop in sync with my desktop and server.
I’d live to give this a shot. Thanks for the invite.
Request invite!
Me please!! Thank you.
I’d like one!
Thanks so much for making this available.
I’d like to try this.
I’d like an account.
I love CyberNet–thanks for thinking of us!
please, I would love one.
I would like one please & thanks!
Wuhu, I made it! Can I get an invite! Thanks.
Thanks for the offer!
I’d like one too!
if there’s anything left please:D
Please, could I get an invite! Thanks.
I’d like to have an invite as well. Thanks.
Would like an invite, please.
Mahalo!
Thanks for the invite - I appreciate it.
Could I get an invite?
Thanks!!!!
I’ll take an invite!
Me please! choose me! XD
I would love an invite. Thanks!
I’m I to late can I get an invite
No need to give me an invite. You can save it for someone else. I’m happy with drop.io for the moment.I just wanted to say that this is a great idea, and I cannot wait for the product to come out of Beta. Great, great idea.
I’m interested as well.
Invite please! Cheers!
Yes please, I’d like an invite
If there are any left, I’d appreciate an invite.
One for me to, please
I’d like one if I’m not too late =)
Any more? XD
I know i’m nr.51, but i’ve been waiting for this like forever. Please, let me have one. I’d be forever gratefull.
lhdala00@gmail.com
Too late?
please I want 1
I kno im late, but perhaps we can tree out the invite by having the invitees invite more people ;D
Is there still some available? thx.
Please let me somehow slip through the limit and get a dropbox invite!
Thanks!
I would LOVE an invite for this! Sure hope there’s some left…
Please send me an invite PLEAZE PLEAZEEE!!! Here-> lawrobertson (at) yahoo.com
Invite please! Cheers!
I did not take time to count, but if an invite is available please send me one!!
This service looks like the best of the larger free storage sites with an even better interface than box.net…which is pretty damn good.
Yes, please. Can I have an invite?
Yes please
Wow, this thing really brings the commenters out of the woodwork. If someone wishes to share an invite with me once their account is up drop me an email:
inferno dot
m1ke
at gmail
dot com
I tried guys, really I did. I sat there and added everyone’s email address to the list, hit invite, and it chopped off all the addresses except the first four. They apparently have an unstated invite limitation, which makes sense, but I would have thought they would have posted it somewhere.
I’m going to try and get my hands on some more invites, and I’ll keep you posted.
Good try. I signed up on the beta page. I guess I’ll have to wait this one out the old fashioned way.
Hi, I would really like an account too… And my email is: johan.m.gustavsson@punkt.se
may i have one plz?
Sounds like a nice service, invite me please
I think that you’re only allowed to send invites to 4 at a time. So, split the email addresses into groups of 4 and you should be able to send anyone an invite.