How is this different from Google Docs?
Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
You using Facebook is not a problem, because it doesn't affect me . However if you decide to use GMail or GA or Google Fonts or gWhatever, then it forces me into the picture and I really do not appreciate it. How would you feel if a private company would give away free surveillance cameras to the store operators in return for telling them how many people walked through their doors? Or how would you like your real-est…
> You would let someone observe you taking a shit in return for a free roll of tissue paper? This is wrong. Holy slippery slope, Batman! There are plenty of reasonable arguments against Facebook, Gmail, etc etc. You went straight past all of them into tinfoil-hat territory without a second glance. Arguments about surveillance cameras, free toilet paper, and other nonsense have absolutely no place in discussions about…
If you say so.
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#223What do you think of the naming? At first I thought it was an API for the self-driving cars...
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#224Well, this pretty much exhausts the pool of people who don't care for the data privacy. On the plus side, those who do want privacy are still waiting for a proper solution, and it is an opportunity. (edit) It is really shocking how absolutely mind-bogglingly ignorant people are when it comes to their data privacy matters. How could any business person in a sane state of mind choose to share its data with some 3rd par…
I have been looking (for years) for a "good" online storage/sync solution that allows me to store my documents using my own private key. TrueCrypt etc don't reach the "set it, and forget it" level. But when you think about how much more expensive storing those documents will be for these companies (as each copy of the same document will be encrypted with a separate private key), and how much value these companies wil…
BoxCryptor: http://www.boxcryptor.com/
Provides a pain-free encrypted layer on top of free cloud storage services like DropBox. BoxCryptor encrypts individual files, then stores the encrypted files in DropBox. If your DropBox account is compromised the adversary will only get useless encrypted files. Uses EncFS. Has clients for Windows and Mac. The Android and iOS clients are amazing.
To me, the most surprising thing about BoxCryptor is that it's easier to use than DropBox--not an easy feat.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
I saw the same pricing as you did but it _just_ changed as I refreshed the page a second time. 1 TB now costs $49.99 per month, or $600/year. This is a substantial jump from $256/year and means it's no longer an attractive proposition...
It was available just minutes ago!! I landed a 200GB space for $50/year just before they changed the pricing plans. I should have gone for more :)
I think you got an "old pricing plan," which does not include Google Drive:
http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
I'm in the same boat, having had an 80GB plan for $20/yr for some time now.
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#226Here's the most important paragraph in the blog post that most people will gloss over (because Google glossed over it): "Drive is built to work seamlessly with your overall Google experience. You can attach photos from Drive to posts in Google+, and soon you’ll be able to attach stuff from Drive directly to emails in Gmail. Drive is also an open platform, so we’re working with many third-party developers so you can d…
Does any of the cloud competitors already offer a similar api that would let my app users use their infra instead of mine? Or associate my app into their ui? Or is this a novel from google?
Windows 8 and Skydrive has a similar concept built into it called contracts. Developers can integrate their app to work with Windows 8's UI. For example you can search your Flikr or Facebook directly in the OS in the same way that you search the file system.
Here's a video demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hesj1I_wsqI#t=12m00s
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsappdev/archive/2012/03/23/act...
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#227There is a huge economy of scale working in Google's favor: deduplication. The more users they can de-dupe across, the cheaper their raw storage becomes. To compete, perhaps smaller backup services could agree "reinsurance" contracts with each other, exchanging lists of file hashes...
Good point. As storage gets cheaper, more people will be induced to store mass media in the cloud, which tends to be a lot more duplicated than personal media like photographs and videos. And that's going to be a big win for the provider with the best ability to dedupe.
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#228I recently upgraded to Dropbox @ $199/yr for 100gb to archive our digital photos. Yesterday MSFT skydrive offered 100gb for $50/yr. Today GOOG offers 400GB for $100/yr or 1TB for $256/yr. As a consumer with "offsite backup" in mind, there doesn't seem to be an inherently high switching cost to move services away from DropBox. As a result I think that they're going to need to reassess pricing strategy within the year.…
If you just wanted an offsite backup option, you should check out the startup backblaze.com They're offering unlimited storage for $4/month.
there is no such thing as unlimited storage. I'd be wary of anything that tries to fool me with the unlimited wording. GoDaddy's hosting packages are unlimited but after 200k inodes, it's not really that unlimited, is it?
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
the same reason 20% time is dead and requires management approval. do I really have to spell it out? (google maps started as an engineer fooling around with ajax).
google maps was an acquired product. It was modified to work in the browser.
they acquired the data because of the browser trick; that's why decided to get into doing that. look it up.
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#230The price of cloud storage in the long run is $0, and we're approaching that point very quickly. UX, not storage space, is going to win.