Removing an annoying element of the internet, an unprompted hello from a chat bot, is such a win IMO.

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It was also so they had time to consume. http://www.worklessparty.org/timework/ford.htm

Additionally, his turnover went to almost zero since a 40 hour workweek was close to a vacation for a lot of people at the time.

I wonder when this showed up in the idea creation. It all depends on a very actively audience engaged with the regular ads (in order to respond to comments via video response). Did they see the popularity and have an idea on how to use social tools to mid-campaign or was it in the works all along? Either way, genius.

I've used dropbox for remote teamwork. The experience worked magically, and the non-web savvy group interacted with it well. I even got enough bonus space for inviting new people to store our entire project.

One issue: because editing and saving is not live there were some issues, namely that we had to coordinate who was using the document when. We ended up with several conflicted copies and extra work.

Definitely makes life easier in remote teams - I'm working on a project with team members in Aus, UK, US, and Canada and Dropbox works excellently.

We're currently trialling it for corporate templates (Coaching Programs, Project Documents etc). Point their MS Office to a Dropbox folder, and every coach in the world will have the latest templates all of the time.

We would benefit from some permission levels (read, no write etc) to make sharing less of a risk for a bigger team, however. While it can be unwound, one person accidentally changing a template could go unnoticed.

Shameless plug: for synchronisation with full file locking, take a look at Synctus. It guarantees no synchronisation conflicts, and LAN-only access means that it is more suited to office environments (no software installation, no extra account management, etc).

How do you deal with people leaving the team?

I didn't dig too deep, but when we let someone go, we'd prefer that they not be able to access our private files anymore. (Especially when they go to work for a competitor!)

Unshare the folder with them.

and don't mark the box titled 'Let him keep the files'

Seems simple enough, just create a corporate account that they can use on their work computer and that they don't have the password to.

If you're still worried, change the password every time someone quits. (Which is usually a good idea.)

It's not a shared account... You remove it from their device and revoke their access to the shared folder. So, the same way you'd do it if they had a branch checked out, etc.

I see this as an incredible leap in branding in the most unexpected places (forms) for those sites that want to go above and beyond in appearing personal, innovative and positive. As an A/B test (as has already been pointed out) it proves nothing but deserves further insight.

This is a great article and I agree with it. However, I think a second point can be made that odd numbers are generally better with most collaborative groups(be it one or three founders in this case).

Alternatively, strategies like this could segregate users on search. Football and Nascar on bing and an entire class of citizens have left Google. Makes me think of Myspace and Facebook.

This certainly seems like a positive step towards finding a lucrative revenue model. Is there any way this will hinder future "Irans"?