Cloud storage Dropbox The number of users up to 175 million, publishing datastore API, etc.

Cloud storage Service Provider Dropbox held its first developer conference yesterday. Dropbox at the meeting announced that the number of users up to 175 million, six months ago Dropbox users up to 100 million, in addition to using its API http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/2595.html "> Third-party applications up to 100,000.

Drew Houston, chief executive of Dropbox, said Dropbox's goal was to integrate data from different applications and devices, and that its open APIs would provide shared data to Dropbox services for different application developers, Allows users to access their data in different applications on any platform. The new target for Dropbox will be synchronization, not save.

Dropbox also publishes a number of new APIs, including the Datastore API, which allows third-party applications to save or protect data that is added or modified offline by a device. In addition, the Drop-ins API will allow Third-party applications to more easily access files that users store in Dropbox. Dropbox can host data storage services for Third-party applications such as games, mail, and so on.

Dropbox also released an integrated Dropbox IOS Mailbox and new Android Yahoo Mail at the developer conference.

For individual users, Dropbox can provide cross-platform data Synchronization Services. Users can create files on personal computers and view and modify them on a tablet or mobile phone.

Dropbox provides free 2G storage space for individual users.