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July 11, 2006

Google Drive Revealed?

Yesterday, Cocaman posted a screen capture of what was named Platypus or GDrive. From the looks of the screen capture it seems like an internal tool used at Google is getting ready for prime time. The page is now offline, of course, but the screen capture read;

+ Backup. If you lose your computer, grab a new one and reinstall Platypus. Your files will be on your new machine in minutes. + Sync. Keep all your machines synchronized, even if they run different operating systems. + VPN-less acecss. Not at a Google computer? View your files on the web at http://troutboard.com/p + Collaborate. Create shared spaces to which multiple Googlers can write + Disconnected access. On the plane? VPN broken? All your files are still accessible.

More details at Philipp Lenssen who seems to have more evidence of Gdrive and also at Garett Rogers.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 7:58 AM | Permalink

March 6, 2006

GDrive: Google's Virtual Hard Drive

At Google Annual Analyst Day there was a slide or two on the presentation that showed evidence of Google creating GDrive; a virtual location to store your files without using a Gmail hack. Greg Linden said Google has removed the revealing notes with slides (PDF) of the presentation. But Derrick posted a comment with the notes for those slides at Greg's blog, where GDrive is mentioned.

Garett Rogers at Googling Google tries to figure out how GDrive will be monetized. He suggests that Google may offer a set amount of storage for free and charge an additional monthly fee for added space. He also suggests that Google may offer hard drive backup services to external devices like DVDs as an additional paid service. But I may offer that Google provides a Gmail-like interface to the data on this GDrive, with ads contextual relevant to the folders and files in the drive.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 9:30 AM | Permalink

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