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I've been waiting for this for a while. Although git is my preferred method of working, for people who aren't technical and who just can't do stuff from terminal, I think this is a great alternative.
The cool thing is you can still use Git with this approach. See: http://bigtrapeze.com/2012/08/25/using-google-drive-as-a-git...
I recently started using Github as my blogging plaform. I just created a repo called 'thoughts' which has a bunch of markdown files inside.
When I create a new 'post' I just share the link to the markdown file on twitter/g+.
I can imagine someone using this feature in a similar way. A super lightweight, quick, and easy way to share some content.
Sometimes just getting the content out is far more important than having a nice website or url.
I can see this being extremely useful for someone just getting into web development that needs a free place to host some stuff. I recently started using Github as my blogging plaform. I just created a repo called 'thoughts' which has a bunch of markdown files inside. When I create a new 'post' I just share the link to the markdown file on twitter/g+. I can imagine someone using this feature in a similar way. A super…
It really seems like there should be a middle ground: my ideas get published while ensuring your business survives. Right now, the two are independent functions.
Sweet, now you can get your own URLs that are as ugly as Google+ ones.
That's a bit of a whiny comment! Use something else if you don't like the Urls. Urls are less relevant these days anyway. Who types Urls anymore? Or who even looks at them?
- Hey there, you should check out this really cool site/post/app/thing!
- That sounds nice, where should I go?
- You go to uh.. googledrive dot com slash host slash zero capital B ehh... forget it.
There is a reason that facebook gave their users vanity URLs, and twitter user URLs are so minimalist, and people pay millions for domain names. A shorter URL is more useful and hence more valuable.
Having the option to point your own domain at the folder would be really nice, actually, and put this on the same tier as Github Pages and S3.
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That's a bit of a whiny comment! Use something else if you don't like the Urls. Urls are less relevant these days anyway. Who types Urls anymore? Or who even looks at them?
Word, the complaining about things is endless. Google is no charity, sure. But they make it easy for people to develop web apps, prototype and monkey with web content, they allow people to share their work with a simple click, but GOD the URLs are not good enough for some random dude on the Internets, we'd better throw our arms in the air and get all snarky about it. With this trend of negativity I guess we've found…
This does not appear to be an official Google site or suggestion. Personally, I'd use them for my cat's blog and that's about it. Google could pull the plug on this at anytime
Seems pretty offficially supported in this blog post from Nov 2012 http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/announcin... and the associated drive SDK for publishing web content https://developers.google.com/drive/publish-site
In that if its unpopular or not to Google's expectation, they'll kill it all of a sudden.
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That's a bit of a whiny comment! Use something else if you don't like the Urls. Urls are less relevant these days anyway. Who types Urls anymore? Or who even looks at them?
Who types URLs or looks at them? If you write URLs in an email, print them on a business card, put them on a poster, say them in a conversation, or basically need anybody who isn't already using a web browser to go to your page, you type URLs and look at them (or hear them). Hearing is the worst offender. - Hey there, you should check out this really cool site/post/app/thing! - That sounds nice, where should I go? -…
Now you could see a very unreadable url in browser's address bar. If you share the url without shorten it, it's looks ugly.
This does not appear to be an official Google site or suggestion. Personally, I'd use them for my cat's blog and that's about it. Google could pull the plug on this at anytime
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That's a bit of a whiny comment! Use something else if you don't like the Urls. Urls are less relevant these days anyway. Who types Urls anymore? Or who even looks at them?
Who types URLs or looks at them? If you write URLs in an email, print them on a business card, put them on a poster, say them in a conversation, or basically need anybody who isn't already using a web browser to go to your page, you type URLs and look at them (or hear them). Hearing is the worst offender. - Hey there, you should check out this really cool site/post/app/thing! - That sounds nice, where should I go? -…