We have all been waiting for Google to release the GDrive service and we might be receiving a few hints now. This page is a copy of what was temporarily available on the Writely server. It gives details on what we can expect from GDrive, also known as Platypus. Here are the details that the page provided:
- 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 access.
Not at a Google computer? View your files on the web at
http://troutboard.com/p.
- Publish.
All of the files you store on Platypus are automatically accessible from the (corporate) web.- Share.
Other Googlers can mount your Platypus folders and open your files in read-only mode. - Publish.
- Collaborate.
Create shared spaces to which multiple Googlers can write.
It also has advantages over storing your files in your filer WWW directory:
- Disconnected access.
On the plane? VPN broken? All your files are still accessible. - Local IO speeds.
Open and save as quickly as you could if you were accessing them from your C: drive.
The text that I italicized I found when looking at the source code of the page. They had commented out that text. This GDrive sounds like it is going to be pretty amazing if it is actually designed for the public. We are probably just getting our hopes up and it will only be for Google employees to store their files.
Source: Cocaman.ch
Google needs to get their act together on this stuff before you all start trumpeting. I take it you haven’t lost anything on your gmail accounts yet?
Until 10AM today I thought the google desktop/gmail combo was pretty darn good. That was before someone on their end fixed it so I can’t log in.
When you depend on email to get the job done, it’s unhelpful to have a security breach and absolutely no way to reach technical support.
Maybe they’re using a gmail server for their tests. Who knows? What I do know is that there is absolutely no way I would trust the contents of my hard drive to them. EVER. If you can’t get hold of a person when something goes wrong, it’s worthless.
I have never had any issues with GMail but there have been [tech.cybernetnews.com] just like yours before. I wouldn’t trust my whole hard drive to Google but I would trust some of my documents. I would think that most people would keep a copy of all the documents locally on their own computer as well as on Google’s servers in the event a server did crash and lose all of your information.
-Ryan
this is an awesome site i love it.
thanks
peace/love