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Google Slips Talk of Online Storage Service
sonsonete writes "Reuters reports that Google is preparing to offer online storage, according to company documents that were mistakenly released on the Web. From the piece: 'The existence of the previously rumored GDrive online storage service surfaced after a blogger discovered apparent notes in a slide presentation by Google executives published on Google's site after its analysts presentation day last Thursday.'"
XDrive, Yahoo Briefcase, anybody?
Of course, we had Web-based e-mail in '96, too, and look what Google did with that.
Ok, that looks like a swipe at Windows and probably not too justified unless you're insinuating this is a hedge against malicious worms.
I'd be more concerned about hard-drive quality. One of my 80GB drives (yeah, I know it's an antique at that size) is making funny noises so it's probably time to move the contents off to another drive (one of the nearly as antique 160GB drives.)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
This will be interesting to see if this provides as much space as the Firefox extension, Gmail Space provides. The way it works, apparently, is to allow access to the file attachment method used by Gmail, providing an interface which appears to be like a file management interface. Very useful!
Hopefully Google will be good and provided enough space to make hacks like this obsolete. Not that they are bad, just inconvenient!
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Between the Spaces
A quick search on gdrive.com comes up with this info.
Registrant:
Data Docket Inc. (DOM-1291683)
391 N Ancestor Pl.
boise ID 83704 US
Domain Name: gdrive.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com/
Funny note would be that the markmonitor website is about making the internet safer for your business. I cant see how the proposed gdrive would do such a thing.
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This is what makes the parent even funnier.
The opposite of progress is congress
http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/03/in-world-with- infinite-storage.html
I find interesting the Lighthouse. What could be that??? Anyway very interesting read, especially regarding the transparent personalization.
Honestly, if they just hint that my wife/parents/children just might end up in an "accident", it would be enogh for me to shut up. If they could capture a German citizen (El Masri), put a diaper on him, drug him and fly him God knows where for harsh interrogations, then release him in the middle of Albania five month later, then I wouldn't hold it above them to harm my family to get me to shut up... I am surprized that guy even had enough guts to talk about it. I am sure you've heard about him, here is a link on the ACLU website about his case.
That's what things like Truecrypt are for.
Of course the majority of people will not use this and happily hand over all their private information...
I have been reading this thread at higher mods because of the number of comments, so I may have missed someone else mentioning this:
.mac accounts? It was free email, and free storage for a while. It was cool to have a joebloke@mac.com email address for a while. The free storage was fantastic. You just connect to your .mac account, and the drive mounts on your desktop. Simple and brilliant.
Anyone remember the first time Apple offered
Then Apple did what every self respecting, money making corporation will eventually do (including Google), they started charging for the service.
Those who benefit from the service pay up, those who don't (like me) just stop using it.