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There’s a plethora of apps out there for sharing your screenshots and files with the world, like Cloudup and Droplr, but what if you’re not sold on the idea of trusting a company with your files? Dropshare for OS X makes uploading and sharing your own files easy. Instead of hosting on a shared service, you choose where to put your files. Using Dropshare, you can host them with Amazon’s S3 service, Rackspace Cloud Files or a self-hosted server using SCP. The app also allows you to auto-upload screenshots, the contents of your clipboard, can create screen recordings and allows you to upload…
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Social media sites must simplify their terms, UK parliamentary committee says
Nov28
on November 28, 2014
at 12:01 am
Social media sites should drastically simplify their terms and conditions, according to a new report from the UK parliament’s Science and Technology Committee. Running the risk of stating the obvious, MPs say the complexity of the terms and conditions means many users aren’t fully aware of how their data can be used. The committee is calling on the UK government to work with the Information Commissioner to develop a new set of standards that websites and apps can sign up to, committing to explain how they use personal data in clear, concise and simple terms. Andrew Miller MP, chair of…
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Mike Volpe is the CMO of Hubspot. At most companies in the United States, vacation starts in the most unrelaxing way possible: permission slips. Accruing enough time to go on vacation then having to ask for permission to do so feels more like a fifth grade field trip than a grown-up getaway. Still, far too many companies rely upon the status quo to inform vacation policies. At HubSpot, we think that’s archaic, so we designed a policy that allows employees to build their work around their life, not the other way around. Only about 13 percent of employees in the…
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