This week the folks at Domino, an analytics company that helps accelerate the data lifecycle, interviewed our CEO, Jason Toy. Jason talks about his history as a programmer, data science, and magic wands. Read the full interview.
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We are back with some exciting news for WordPress users! The long-awaited Filestack WordPress Upload V2.0 is finally released with some impressive improvements and new features.
Thanks to everyone who came out to Exosphere 2014! It was a great turnout, and good times were had by all. Participants who were in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent were invited by Iron.io, Storm Ventures, Copper.io and Filepicker to attend the shuttle launch. On Wednesday, November 12th, at approximately 18:30 Pacific Standard Time (PST), […]
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Filepicker is excited to announce the acquisition of OneTimeBox. OneTimeBox allows people to quickly and easily share files without the hassle of making accounts and experiencing lengthy wait times. Its incredible simplicity and strong execution align well Filepicker’s vision. OneTimeBox was built by Oliver Song at HackMIT. Over the past year, it has steadily grown to […]
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Recently, Filepicker graciously donated a free account to IdeatEd, a social impact project building & impact tracking platform for students. Using the Filepicker API allows our students to easily drag and drop their photos into projects, and to pull from photos uploaded to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
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Need some inspiration? Here are 7 tips for staying productive while working for a startup: 1. Practice Zero Inbox Try to practice zero inbox. Even though emails may keep piling on, it’s not productive to keep them lingering around. Process emails as quickly as you can. Reply to the ones that need replies. Delegate the […]
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When we created Filepicker, we made it simpler for apps, services and devices to work together. Instead of implementing APIs from every possible cloud storage environment, the Filepicker API grabbed content updates from almost anywhere. Still, getting all of those user updates was resource-intensive. Because apps had to poll for changes, many companies had to […]
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For those of you who don’t work virtually, or from home, most of us have a commute. What better way to use that time than to keep your mind off work, but keep you inspired for the day? Listen to these four netcasts to stay informed, brainstorm ideas, and expand your horizons.
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Filepicker is not susceptible to the SSL 3.0 bug known as POODLE. Here’s why: Earlier this week the Google Security Team published details of a vulnerability in a specific version of SSL 3.0 (RFC6101) which they have deemed obsolete and insecure. This bug can be exploited by a man in the middle attack, where an […]
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We were inspired by the share as image blog that noted Filepicker as one of the apps they use to run their startup. So, just as they said, we aren’t getting anything for sharing. This is just what apps we love! Stripe If you’re running a SaaS, Stripe is pretty much a must have. It […]
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Fix to be implemented in iOS 8.0.1 As some of you have already noticed, file uploads from the photo library in iOS 8 are broken. Unfortunately this is not something that Filepicker can fix or create a workaround for, as it is an issue that was created by Apple. This bug affects not only HTML […]
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Last week was a busy one for Filepicker! We got the team together from Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Europe. DataWeek + API World 2014 Conference & Expo is San Francisco’s largest Data + API conference of 2014 – with 100+ talks and interact with 200+ new data & API technologies. If you had a […]
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What: A drink up with Filepickers @jtoy, @markbakker, the startup community, and other Filepickers. When: Tuesday, September 16 at 8pm Where: Palmer’s. 2298 Fillmore St. How: Look for the robot tshirts, and signup using the form below.
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Great news! FIlepicker is going to be in San Francisco for API World, the largest API conference and expo 100% focused on developers. We’ve been invited to talk on the Emergence of Storage API’s and File App Ecosystems panel. “Does the emergence of File Storage API’s and file app ecosystems mean that a company is […]
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Here at Filepicker we are constantly impressed how our customers are using our app. This week we wanted to share how Videolean is using Filepicker to enhance their app for their users. About Videolean Videolean is helping small business owners to grow their business with the most powerful marketing tool nowadays: videos. Entrepreneurs want videos […]
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There are three steps of caching in Filepicker. The following are Filepicker’s internal cache layers, with the first layer being the browser: The first layer is the browser cache. Whenever Filepicker returns a file, whether it was converted or not, the file is loaded with a cache control response header telling the browser to cache […]
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Remote Storage and Cloud-Based Uploads A Perfect Fit Recently, thedatabank integrated Filepicker into their nonprofit CRM software. We spoke to Sue Ponsford, Director of Technical and Client Services and William Naylor, Data Migration Specialist at thedatabank to find out why they chose Filepicker. First, Here’s Some Background On The Data Bank Sue Ponsford Director of […]
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Several updates were recently made to the iOS Filepicker library, so we thought we’d go over a few of the important changes we’ve made. 90% of these changes were based on issues reported by GitHub users. Thanks to everyone for your support and for helping us build a better Filepicker! Benefits Of Using Filepicker vs. […]
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White Label Your Custom Dropbox App On Filepicker’s scale plan, you can have a complete white labeled experience to connect your own dropbox account. It will enable your users to pick files from their dropbox via your custom application. Follow along with the steps below. It should take you less than 7 minutes to setup! […]
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Filepicker is used in many countries around the world, and we want to support our international users by enabling multi-language support. You will soon be able to integrate Filepicker in the native language of choice. We currently have support for Simplified Chinese and Polish. Spanish and Traditional Chinese are coming at the end of the […]
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Filepicker makes the user experience seamless. Did you know that you can add custom CSS to match the look and feel of your site? Why use Filepicker Custom CSS? Using Custom CSS to modify your Filepicker’s design allows for an enhanced user experience for people uploading to your site, while also keeping the convenience of […]
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Metadata endpoints are critical pieces of the puzzle in any file uploaded to Filepicker. It is used to expose additional information regarding services or applications. Metadata also allows for info developers need to find it on their own. The alternative is trying to hunt it down blindly, or ask a publisher for a copy via […]
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With the Filestack Filepicker, the days of editing images in Photoshop are coming to an end. Once you upload images to Filepicker, you can edit that image directly from its URL. Image Conversion Filepicker makes it ease to work with user content by enabling image post-processing. That way, regardless of what type of file a […]
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Over the past 2 years Filepicker has matured from a dorm-room idea to help developers like us deal with the pain of uploads, to a YCombinator graduate and a thriving community of over 30,000 live Filepickers that have uploaded over 100 millions files! You’ve seen us build out our partner integrations and ecosystem—removing the technical […]
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Filepicker Now Has A Status Page With millions of file uploads trusted by over 20,000 developers, Filepicker is a product that people depend upon in their daily lives. Whether web integrations with HTML widgets, or deep integrations with Javascript API, Filepicker makes websites a whole lot more powerful. We believe that software should make your […]
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Filepicker recently interviewed Brandfolder Co-founder and Head of Product, Paul Arterburn, to discuss how he used Filepicker for GovDev Challenge hosted by Google. Why did you take part in GovDev Challenge? It was the first 24-hour GovDev Challenge put on by Google – who teamed up with the state of Colorado and Wyoming to come […]
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The increasing prevalence of mobile technology in today’s world is making life easier for some, while adding confusion to the lives of others. Tech savvy individuals understand many of the changes going on in mobile access, data sharing, and file transfers, but not everyone understands how things work. Filepicker’s new MD5 metadata call feature is […]
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Yesterday Detectify published a blog post explaining the pitfalls of allowing file uploads on your site. There are many kinds of attacks that a malicious user could target through your file upload system. In the particular attack, they show you how to use flash to upload a bogus file which can then execute arbitrary code using […]
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After being awarded as “Best Plug-In of May” by Atlassian, we used this excitement to add a linking feature to the plugin. With Version 1.1, you can link files from any of the cloud sources which host files and stop worrying about keeping JIRA in sync. Check out the video here Check out the newest […]
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Recently we released our Filepicker JIRA Plug-In to enable JIRA users to attach files, select profile photos, and export records using all Filepicker supported cloud sources. The way organizations are consuming software is radically changing. Consumerization of enterprise IT is emerging as the dominant model for software adoption. Atlassian’s products: JIRA and Confluence are leading […]
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Express your ideas with conviction, but be willing to drop them and adopt better ideas as they come along. The best leaders and organizations are those that are pragmatic. Here at Filestack, we say “Strong Opinions, Weakly Held” – a concise and effective way of encouraging active debate and the meritocracy of ideas. “Strong Opinions” […]
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We’ve been growing in headcount and we found ourselves with an odd problem: we didn’t have enough key fobs to the office. Filepicker.io moved into a nice work live space overlooking AT&T park last October and our landlord has been great; we just kept asking for more key fobs. However, here’s how we got Twilio […]
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Hi all, Monday the 1st I joined Filepicker.io to work on User Acquisition and Product Management and I am pumped! Prior to this role, I worked as a Product Manager of Shopping and Merchandising at Nook (the e-reader owned by B&N) in Palo Alto, Product Manager of League of Legends Shop at Riot Games in […]
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One of the most requested features we hear from our customers is the ability to use video transcoding with Filepicker.io in a way that’s just as powerful and easy to integrate as our image conversion capabilities. We took a deep look at the video transcoding space and knew that we wanted to work with Zencoder […]
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When you’re working on javascript code, you can set a breakpoint from your editor by putting in the statement ‘debugger;’ in your code where you want to break. It’s better in many cases than manually setting a breakpoint in the inspector. I recently was working with a very talented front-end engineer who had never seen […]
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First let’s set some boundary conditions for this post. It is meant for early stage tech startups with limited resources embarking on their first usability testing experiment. Yes, usability testing is important. But performing usability testing at an early stage startup is hard. Best practices from larger companies with dedicated product managers do not carry […]
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We deal with a lot of data at Filestack and are constantly looking at ways to improve our ability to manage the large volume of content flowing through our systems. Last week, we had a great opportunity to exchange notes with folks at the OPen Compute Summit. The Open Compute Summit featured a hackathon sponsored by the […]
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Very recently, without many people realizing it, there’s been a major shift in the way that software companies treat cloud storage services like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive etc. Online storage is starting to become a primary hard drive for users rather than a secondary. We’ve been seeing it in the rapid pace of our growth […]
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Fresh from Thanksgiving and its associated warm fuzzies, I found myself wondering if the spirit of generosity and gratitude extend to business contexts. For example, how do people respond when they are presented a product or service without a corresponding price? I am specifically referring to situations where the seller invites the buyer to name […]
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You started a company!? High five, good work. It’s now been a few months, you’ve had a lot of late nights with your cofounders, and it’s starting to look like you are making something people want. Here’s a heads up on some of the things you’ve probably ignored so far, but you should probably take […]
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It has been said you should enter a business plan competition at most once. Steve Blank wouldn’t even go that far. Most startup events are similar, particularly around universities – going to more than one can be dangerous in that it creates a false sense of accomplishment. Don’t get me wrong, these events are fun, […]
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Startups often want to sign up well recognized brands as customers. It increases the credibility of their own brand and provides social proof to their smaller customers. However, the sales approach that worked for a smaller customer doesn’t always work for a larger one. This post details a situation where I failed to recognize the […]
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We at Filestack spend a lot of time thinking about APIs. With the release of our Version 1.0 API, we thought about best practices for JavaScript API design, and wanted to share them so that when we use your API, it’ll be just as awesome as when you use ours. In this article, we’ll show […]
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Browser-side Javascript is a lot of fun, but there’s a serious limitation when it comes to security because the source is publicly viewable. Given that one of the things we do here at Filepicker.io is provide a javascript library that helps developers upload files into their S3, it’s important that the developers have a way […]
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In trying to help a friend get more storage space during the Dropbox Space Race, Alex Milouchev built something really cool: a Google Chrome extension for attaching your files anywhere on the web to Gmail. Using Filepicker.io, Alex’s Chrome extension (christened Cloudy) allows you to attach your files from Dropbox, Facebook, Flickr, Google Drive, etc. […]
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Filepicker.io helps mobile and web application developers directly integrate with the user’s files in multiple cloud storage platforms. We save developers time because they don’t have to write custom code for file upload and file management. tl;dr: When doing customer development it’s valuable to focus on the non-work related persona of the customer. Since we […]
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We have been busy this October talking to users and writing code. So we took a step back and decided to consolidate all the resources & tools that we released. These may help you integrate with Filepicker.io faster. Shoot us a note at contact at filestack.com if you have questions or comments. Also, we wanted […]
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About Coderbits Coderbits is site that lets you share (and show off) what you know. By linking data from sites such as: Github, Codecademy, Dribbble, Coderwall, Forrst, you can have a complete and up-to-date profile of what you’re learning, what kind of time and energy you’re expending into your craft. Coderbits value proposition is extremely […]
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I can’t tell you how many times my Mom has wanted to collect everyone’s photos from an event or a trip, and how every time the process feels like pulling teeth. I use Dropbox, my sister has photos on Facebook, my Dad’s are on Picasa – it’s a mess. In light of this problem, might […]
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With the release of our Javascript API, we’ve had a number of people ask how in the world we were able to make a cross-browser solution for reading, writing, and storing files in javascript, especially with IE8. It’s fun stuff, so I wanted to share with the community how we did it. Warning: what follows […]
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3 HTML5 Apps Zuck may have given up on HTML5 but the rest of us including Filepicker.io haven’t. We are BIG believers in the future of HTML5; both for web and mobile apps. That is why we are ardent supporters of the HTML5 Developer Conference on October 15th and 16th in San Francisco. A week […]
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