Important BufferBox Update (opens in new tab)

I am very disappointed to see this. I have been using BufferBox since the beginning, and it provided immense convenience for both myself, and all of my friends who used the service as well. I was worried that something like this would have happened when they were acquired by Google, and now it has :(

Billion $ company buys an awesome product -> Billion $ company shuts down the awesome product.

Typical day. Nothing to see here. Move on.

Is this Whatsapp's future? Stay tuned.

$37 million dollars to waste...

This is common enough that there's a blog devoted to it: http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Huh, I only hear of them as they're shutting down; I've wanted something like this in the past. Interestingly the German and Danish postal services have been offering such a service for a while, partly out of a desire to reduce their delivery costs (it reduces the number of packages that have to be lugged out to individual doors).

Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation

Denmark: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...

There's still swapbox, growing fast.