Facebook finally does something to improve its media sharing capabilities

Facebook, probably the world leader in image sharing, has made a significant step in improving its technical capabilities by purchasing drop.io. How sad for drop.io users... And another step in making life harder for the already lagging competitors. The Like's revolution is making facebook somewhat of an index of the Internet as a whole. But the intertwinement of drop.io into facebook will most probably present facebook as an alternative for all other storage services. The privacy policy chosen in regards to this new service will probably determine the level of acceptance... time will tell, but if I'm youtube (i.e google), I'd start working overtime to prepare for the coming rough months.


[update: another plausible explanation given: Mark Zuckerberg just really, really, really wanted to work with Drop.io's Sam Lessin]