Make It A Habit, It’s Good For You. I just finished reading a fascinating piece from this weekend's New York Times 'Warning - Habits Might Be Good For You' . For one reason or another, the article has been the buzz around our office this week - no joke, I have heard it discussed in three or four ...

Up, Up and Away (Or An Alternative to Downtime). The big news this weekend was Amazon S3 storage service’s downtime on Sunday. The accounts I have seen are reporting that the service down for anywhere from 5-7 hours, causing a great many members- and large companies included - hours of no access to their valuable, if not imperative, online ...

Our New Box!. The Box HQ has moved out of the old: http://www.box.net/shared/nepbdpxc0w And into the new: http://www.box.net/shared/53k8v3beo8 Ahhhh - more space... I, for one, am loving the new office - more desks, new chairs, a phone system (thanks Seb), and meeting rooms - please note the plurality. We have big windows, more than one Ladies Room;) ...

Xdrive, we’ll take you…. It was over two years ago when we saw that our traffic was starting to surpass the industry's incumbent, Xdrive. This was very exciting for us because Xdrive had truly paved the way for people putting files and information online, well before it was the cool thing to do. ...

Meet our Summer Interns…. I remember being an intern - but I remember something just a tad different. I remember doing slightly less 'quality work', being less accountable, less involved, a bit more intern-y than what I see going on here. Maybe it is the nature of our business, or that we are by ...

Box.net’s Random Mascot of the Week. We had a guest in the office last week - saved from the side of Page Mill Road by Christina (from our Enterprise team) during her morning commute. It was just about halfway through the day that someone mentioned that 'Box' was likely a water turtle - good thing we ...

Checking in on the “Online Storage Gang”. It's no secret that what has been called the "online storage gang" in the past is now mostly defunct. This classic post in the early days of Techcrunch profiled an inspiring list of startups, as well as larger companies, all competing to power peoples' move to the cloud. Recently, a ...

You Know You Are a ‘Valley’ Girl When…. ... you think something is extra-cool just because Lifehacker does. I guess living and working in Silicon Valley for two years will do that to a girl. Anyway, I saw some chatter about this Monday on a few blogs, but I didn't think all that much about it until yesterday - ...

Get Box.net at Fry’s!. We are thrilled to share that you can now get Box.net's online storage and collaboration service at Fry's Electronics stores. We are offering 2GB and 5GB cards - all you have to do it pick one up, visit www.box.net/card and enter the activation code on the back. Check it out! Find a ...

For the Love of Enterprise…. Here's the scoop - the ever-increasing demand for Box Enterprise (yay!) has fueled our continued expansion of enterprise-class tools. We wanted to let you know about new features that have been integrated for productive collaboration within these accounts. You might have already noticed a few small tweaks to the Box.net ...