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While there’s nothing absolutely new about it (since it was announced on TechCrunch earlier today), Drop.io and Scribd today announced integration of iPaper and Drop.io.

Anything you put in a Dropio box will be easily opened up in Scribd, and there is no need to sign in or sign up for an account. Interesting–it addresses the issue that is most often complained about, which is having to register for an account yet again on another application.

Dropio’s PR says that the drop box has been historically used to share photos from family events and auctioning farm animals.

It’s like mailbox meets online library. While I like the Scribd function to see all files in PDF, which avoids storing things in my cache, I would stay tuned to see if this has changed anyone’s life yet.

This and other apps like Box.net are good indicators that storage is moving online as well, which can quickly make 2 GB USB pens obsolete. This is also good news for the server and storage folks, as data clustering in the cloud becomes the upcoming trend.

I’ve always been good with foreigners, and was very well known in my college years to be the welcome wagon, give you a tour of campus and the best places in downtown San Jose, and whatnot.

But this is kinda silly, because I see a HUGE opportunity to now welcome digital immigrants.
I owned my first Mac when I was 9 years old (Thanks Dad!) so I guess that qualifies me as a Digital Native. As for Digital Immigrants, that is all you who are wondering “what is social media and what do I with it?”

The first rule of learning about social media is to be open minded. You can’t learn anything if your thought is “Well, that’s not how they did it years ago.”

OK, I agree social media is a HUGE buzz word, and maybe you really don’t have time to get involved. I admit, it is also a very addictive medium because it’s interactive.

But we all have to learn to innovate, and that also means playing nice with the late adopters. There’s apparently this entire market of people who are now familiar with the web when it first emerged in the 90s, and are curious about social media, but are absolutely confused about where to start. Ironically, I write a blog, so I’m not exactly sure how Digital Immigrants will find this post, but if you are curious about what is a:
“blog”
“Twitter”
“Cloud Computing”
… read on. Let’s see if we can make this a good jumping off point for you.
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