http://blog.box.net Thoughts from within the box Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:12:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Silicon Valley locals and commuters may remember our billboard along the 101 last summer, calling on frustrated SharePoint users to take the Box.net challenge. We invited SharePoint customers to trial our service with the promise that if they didn't prefer Box, we'd foot the bill for three months of SharePoint. ... http://blog.box.net/?p=1507 We love talking with our customers about how they're using Box and other cloud-based services to enhance their business. It gives us a chance to get feedback on our product, but also helps us keep tabs on the bigger picture - the trends and movements that are reshaping business today. Today's ... http://blog.box.net/?p=1503 Few businesses jumped to endorse the iPhone when it was introduced in 2007. It was viewed as a device for consumers, not equipped for "real" business use like, say, the BlackBerry. After all, where was the keyboard?  But a funny thing happened - the iPhone did nothing less than completely ... http://blog.box.net/?p=1496 Last week, Robert Scoble of building43 stopped by Box HQ for a good chat with CEO/Co-founder Aaron Levie and VP of Marketing Jen Grant. They talked about the new content viewing and embedding features we recently introduced, where Box is headed with Cloud Content Management, and how Box's open platform ... http://blog.box.net/?p=1491 Imagine if the web worked like this: you want to watch a YouTube video, but you have to download the video in a separate window before watching. Then you decide to read the New York Times, but you have to open a PDF to read each article. Now you're in ... http://blog.box.net/?p=1467 A few days ago, our friends at TechCrunch ran a post I wrote titled "The Coming Tornado: Cloud in the Enterprise." In it, I explain why cloud-based services will tip for large businesses over the next two years, unleashing a "tornado" of change in enterprise IT. Maturing platforms, increasingly web-savvy ... http://blog.box.net/?p=1464 Since we launched in 2005, Box.net has made it easy for users to store and share files online - today, more than 3.5 million people and businesses use our platform to collaborate in the cloud. Today's announcement that Google Docs will also support storage for all file types is further ... http://blog.box.net/?p=1462 Well, 2009 has officially come to an end, but what a year! We're excited that so many of you - whether new or seasoned Box users - were along for the ride. We started 2009 off with a bang, launching a completely new design and user interface. Since then, we've faced off ... http://blog.box.net/?p=1454 We're all about making it easy to organize and share documents and media online, but what about managing the resources you find on the Web? As you know, Box has a built-in feature that lets you save bookmarks for research reports, articles, and other key online sources you want to ... http://blog.box.net/?p=1451 Wouldn't it be great if you could send snail mail as easily as clicking "send" on an email? We've teamed up with PostalMethods to make sending your Box files through the mail as simple as possible. Here's how it works: just select the PostalMethods OpenBox action from the directory, and click ... http://blog.box.net/?p=1449