[Tccc] Dropbox measurements
Alex Vieira
alex.borgesatufjf.edu.br
Sun Feb 24 13:14:43 EST 2013
Hi, we need some more volunteers to run our app.
as we told before, process is totally anonymous. Thanks in advance
Dear all,
>
> We are running a "crowdsourcing" experiment to collect statistics about
> Dropbox folder usage.
> Everything boils down to download a simple app, and running it on your PC.
>
> I'd like to invite you to participate in this experiment by following the
> instructions from
>
> http://www.simpleweb.org/wiki/Dropbox_Crawler
>
> At the end, you'll get some statistics about what's inside your dropbox
> folder, plus the updated statistics on how your country is performing in
> the race of participants! :)
>
> In more details
>
> What our application will do?
> Scan your Dropbox folder
> Calculate basic statistics
> Show you what has been collected for your approval
> Send the statistics to us
> Collected data is sent via HTTP (so that you can check it) to a central
> collection point.
>
> All collected data will be made available to the research community as
> well.
>
> Thanks to the one that will contribute to our survey.
>
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